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Former LA Supt. Has Certificate Revoked

Wed, 07/12/2023 - 12:00am

After a recommendation that his teaching certificate be suspended for three years by the state Professional Administrators Practices and Standards Commission, former Langford Area Superintendent Ryan Bruns later had his license permanently revoked. The decision was made April 21 upon review of the case by Dr. Joseph Graves, South Dakota’s new Secretary of Education. Documents about the case were publicly released last week.

Rags to Rugs: Local Couple’s Colorful Hobby

Donna and Larry Lindberg are retired, but the pair keeps plenty busy with their business Rags to Rugs by Grandma Donna and Grumpy Grandpa. The couple works together making handmade rugs on a loom that is decades old. The Lindbergs sell the rugs out of their home in Britton and at a farmers market in Nevada where they spend winters.

Rags to Rugs: Local Couple’s Colorful Hobby

Rags to Rugs: Local Couple’s Colorful Hobby

Wed, 07/12/2023 - 12:00am

When Donna Lindberg was five years old, she remembers her mother buying her first loom in Davenport, Iowa. Her family lived in Illinois and came across the border to buy the big contraption. Lindberg soon found herself and her siblings helping her mother make rugs out of clothing scraps. Decades later, Donna and her husband Larry are carrying on the family tradition of rug-making and sharing their handicrafts across the country.

Knecht New B-H Board President

Wed, 07/12/2023 - 12:00am

At Monday’s Britton-Hecla School Board meeting, the board certified the votes cast in the school board election held last month as true and correct. The new board was convened and subsequently oaths of office were administered to Business Manager Kayla Hastings and to Board Members Kelli Erickson, Angela Grupe, and Heather Landreth.

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Kirk Rabenberg and his family stand in his corn field a few miles east of Britton. The healthy looking corn sure put “knee high by the Fourth of July” to shame this year. Rabenberg has been back in the area farming since 2014. He describes this year’s corn as above average. Pictured, left to right, Rabenberg’s wife Andrea, daughters, Claire, Leah and Alice, and Kirk.

Rollercoaster Of Moisture, Nice-Looking Crops

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 12:00am

After a near record-breaking snowfall this past winter, the spring looked a little uncertain for planting. Follow that up with some very dry and hot conditions in the next couple of months, and it seems like the extreme swings would lead to headaches and worry for producers in northeast South Dakota and beyond. Luckily, Mother Nature pulled through again with recent rains and local experts agree that crops are looking pretty promising as we pass the Fourth of July.

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