News across Pennington County
One in three tested wells high in arsenic
OYATE COMMUNITY CENTER – Black Hills Clean Water Alliance (BHCWA) held the second of five community forums they are sponsoring in communities across the Black Hills and West River to inform residents about active proposals for exploratory uranium drilling and uranium mining in…
Dignity award honors five Indigenous women
RAPID CITY—Five women have been named the inaugural recipients of the Dignity of Earth & Sky Leadership Award, a new annual honor recognizing an outstanding South Dakota Indigenous woman for leadership, courage, perseverance and wisdom. Cecelia Fire Thunder, Gay Kingman, Tamara…
Friendly folks who got good hospitality training
Grouchy likes both Subway and Jimmy John’s, but if he must choose between the two, he prefers Jimmy John’s. Jersey Mike’s belongs in the conversation but Grouchy hardly pays them a visit for the simple reason he has to wait in line forever. Not that you never have to wait in line…
Markell and Nate shine at Rapid City Special Olympics
Fall is officially in the books as Black Hills residents are enjoying a cooling down of the weather. However, this is the Black Hills and the weather changes fast. We will be back to eighty degrees temperatures once again this week but not for long. Wyoming looks like they have…
Surging Vikings gets another upset win
It appears the excitement from opening day has spread over to opening homecoming week for teams who played on the road last week. What a big difference it makes playing in front of your home crowd. A difference that appeared to boost teams to their first seasonal win. It is also…
Rapid City Christian earning a spot in Indian Country
RAPID CITY—Mount Vernon/Plankinton (MVP) is one of those football teams who makes you work, has solid line play, and a workhouse back in Paxton Nedved who is as tough as any player on the field. They don’t pass much but they can keep you honest with their ground game and…
Cell Phone Dilemmas
If anyone under the age of 40 reads this, they will once again decide that I am a crazy old nut. Perhaps, they are right. At any rate, I think that cell phone technology is one of the worst things that has happened in the past 20 years or so. These gadgets seem to have taken over…
Promises Made, Promises Kept
At this time two years ago, with President Biden and Democrats in charge, our country was dealing with an inflation crisis and a historic immigration crisis. Democrats’ reckless spending contributed to the worst inflation in 40 years, and their open-border policies led to…
Fairness isn’t charity, it’s how you grow the economy
“It’s the economy, stupid.” That was the blunt reminder Democratic strategist James Carville taped to the wall of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. The relentless focus on everyday economic reality helped drown out Republican messaging that, for years, had wrapped itself in a cloak…
When the real wolf came
Hyperbole—extravagant exaggeration. It is good to know the word’s precise definition before proceeding. The most famous example of hyperbole is the boy who cried wolf, and the consequence of that hyperbolic persistence was—when the real wolf came—nobody responded to the boy’s…
Flipping the script on Black Hills Claim history
Up until June of 1980, the Lakota had a relatively honest history. No history is perfectly factual, and there are always legitimate disagreements about events and people worth respecting and discussing. But something happened in June of 1980, something so deeply disturbing it…
