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• Former downtown biz leader Maskovich gets 90 days for theft

  19-04-2018 06:50
  A “repo on a headstone,” and stealing from her own grandmother seemed to convince a judge on Tuesday to order that Jeanine Maskovich, once the president of a downtown Pierre business group and a well-thought-of employee at a downtown business,…
  
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• Big crowd on hand for meeting on Missouri River flood control

  19-04-2018 06:50
  
  The recent blizzard across the Northern Plains that dropped some record snowfalls on Pierre, as well as on the Twin Cities and Sioux Falls and other points last week led to some quick re-figuring by Missouri River managers, they said…
  
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• Stanley County bites bullet on WAPA pole yard tax abatement; chewing on PILT won’t help much

  19-04-2018 06:40
  
  On Tuesday, Stanley County’s commissioners grudgingly approved a tax abatement for Western Area Power Administration's new pole yard on Waldron Street in Fort Pierre. It means that a total of $4,884 in taxes won't be paid to the county, city…
  
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• Songwriter’s Showcase dishes up healthy dose of South Dakota flair

  19-04-2018 06:40
  
  More than eighty people gathered for the Songwriter’s Showcase at the Drifter’s Bar and Grille Event Center on April 14.
  
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• SD hired hand sent to prison for stealing $400K of grain from farmers

  19-04-2018 06:40
  MOUNT VERNON, S.D. — A hired hand got into a peck of trouble for stealing bushels from the father-and-son farmers who had trusted him for years.
  
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• MRC might get a meet and pass

  19-04-2018 06:40
  The state Railroad Board decided Wednesday to seek a federal grant to partially pay for a possible new feature on the state-owned Mitchell-Rapid City line.
  
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• Fort Pierre utilities ordinance revisions get another tweak heading toward eventual vote

  19-04-2018 06:40
  
  In the middle of last week, the sidewalk slabs in front of Magpie's Gathering Place on Deadwood Street in Fort Pierre had been busted up and dirt was mounded up beside a hole that revealed a sewer pipe that needed…
  
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• Edward D. Hull, 74 January 26, 1944 to April 9, 2018

  19-04-2018 06:40
  
  Edward David (Ed) Hull was born in Richmond, CA to David and Constance (Purcell) Hull on January 26, 1944 during WWII. After the war effort ended, the Hulls returned to Pierre to be closer to family. It was here that…
  
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