The Daily Republic : Mitchell

Tripp County landowner says the season is long enough; opinion varies, commissioners say

Members of the state Game, Fish and Parks Commission will decide next week whether to extend the pheasant-hunting season in South Dakota, a proposal that is prompting much discussion throughout the state, according to a commission member.

Mitchell Police Department Press Log 3/24/2008

Cancer patients’ fitness class set

“Get Fit While you Sit,” a 30- minute class for cancer patients and their families, will meet every Tuesday morning, beginning Tuesday, April 1, at the Cancer Center, Mitchell.

Highway Patrol sets sobriety checks

South Dakota Highway Patrol will hold sobriety checkpoints in the month of April in Charles Mix, Jerauld and Lyman counties.

Prison witnessing seminar planned

STICKNEY — A seminar on witnessing in state prisons and youth penal institutions will be presented in two sessions, 1 to 2:30 p.m. and 3 to 5 p.m., on Saturday, March 29, at United Methodist Church, Stickney.

Group to work on long-term care issues in legislative interim

YANKTON (AP) — The state Department of Human Services has assembled a working group to study long-term care in South Dakota.

Emergency alert system closer to reality at universities

YANKTON (AP) — An emergency alert system for South Dakota’s six public university campuses could be up and running by April 30.

Man stabbed in odd Rapid City incident

RAPID CITY (AP) — Rapid City police say a man was stabbed in the head with a knife on Sunday and that a woman has been arrested. Just before noon Sunday, police say they found John Siers, 42, of Rapid City with a kitchen knife sticking out of the left side of his head. Authorities say the knife was completely embedded in Siers’ head.

38 Special to play at S. Dakota State Fair

HURON (AP) — The veteran rock band 38 Special has been booked to perform at the South Dakota State Fair grandstand on Aug. 30. The band, which has released more than a dozen albums since 1975, features its co-founders: front man Donnie Van Zant and vocalist-guitarist Don Barnes.

Youth accused of spraying McDonald’s worker with Mace

PIERRE (AP) — Pierre police say a McDonald’s employee was sprayed in the face with Mace Sunday night — and that a 17-year-old boy faces aggravated assault charges.

Community Calendar

City leaders look at land options after deal with company fails

As the dust settles following a failed proposal to give city-owned park land to a private company, the question of what to do with the land remains.

Firm hired to oversee retirement plan for local district

As part of a brief Monday agenda, the Mitchell school board gave its unanimous approval to hire CPI Qualified Plan Consultants of Great Bend, Kan., to provide professional oversight services for the district’s 403(b) tax sheltered annuity retirement plan. The district has 325 eligible employees and 150 are currently participating in the plan.

Video of Ladies Night Out

Our View: Binge drinking needs attention

An interesting program to limit — yet not entirely stop — drinking among college students is in its fourth year in Minnesota.
Students at the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University are pushing the “Stop at Buzzed” campaign, which urges students to resist binge drinking and simply refrain when they feel the beginning effects of inebriation.

Opinion: Seeking racial harmony

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. — Amongst the moss-draped live oaks of Charleston Collegiate School’s 33-acre campus — where children of all ethnicities, religions and abilities work and play together — the words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright seem alien and hostile. His sometimes hate-filled rhetoric is weirdly out of sync with this quiet corner of the Old South, where ancestors of the school’s African-American students worked as slaves, perhaps upon these very fields.

Opinion: Spending is out of control in Congress

We’ve all seen or heard about them. Perhaps they are friends or family members who have demonstrated financial irresponsibility: a college student who has a budget and quickly exceeds it on wild partying; a cousin or best friend who asks for a “loan” and then never pays it back; people whose credit cards are maxed out and they can’t afford the finance charges.

Another Hieb headed to Augustana

Mitchell High School senior Eric Hieb is quick to credit his older brother with making him the golfer he is today. So when it came time for Eric to make a choice as to where to golf in college, he made the logical decision.

Mitchell, Winner open season at DakotaDome

VERMILLION — The Mitchell boys’ and girls’ track and field teams took their marks for the first time this season at Monday’s Class A Dan Lennon Invitational at the DakotaDome in Vermillion. The best individual Kernels’ finish came courtesy of junior Tessa Dee. Dee improved her place in all three heats of the 60-meter hurdles and finished in fourth place in the finals with a time of 9.63 seconds.

Season starts today for area track teams

A handful of Mitchell-area track and field teams will open the 2008 season today at various meets in South Dakota, and another handful will have to wait after a large meet was canceled.