Buffalo News

Governor Requests Presidential Disaster Declaration For 29 Counties If the Declaration of Disaster is approved, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will cover 75% of the estimated damage cost of $4 million.

For the past few years, rooms at the Tipperary Lodge motel in Buffalo that sat empty in winter have been full.

“There might be 75 to 100 poles down in Harding County. So we're going to be maybe a week without electricity, so everyone's got generators running.”

Throughout Rapid City, only scattered snowdrifts remain from the storm that shut down the city Friday, but when you head north, it's a different story. via KOTA-TV Rapid City

Melanie Brandert, Argus Leader * April 22, 2008 University of South Dakota's Earth Day activities will run until 8 p.m. at Pine and Cherry streets in Vermillion. via Argus Leader

South Dakota's Department of Social Services will hold several more educational sessions on the state's long-term care partnership program. via ArgusLeader.com

Instead of a green eyeshade and an adding machine, a bucket of hot water and a mop was the introduction Tony J. Swartz got to the world of banking. via Desert Sun

“Marinating is the key to the whole thing”

For Corey Kolke's jerky contest, 15 people entered, but 70 folks judged the samples. via ArgusLeader.com

“Officers started to converge and we were getting updates from someone following the buffalo, that it was west-bound on 12th Street and shortly after that it went north-bound on Valley View Road.”

South Dakota is still a home where many buffalo still roam, but not on the streets of Sioux Falls. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

Buffalo-area residents have helped raise $40,000 to reopen the medical clinic in the Harding County town in the southwest corner of the state. via Rapid City Journal

Temperatures will plunge tonight into the single digits for most of the Northeast with wind chills below zero for many locations in the Midwest and northern Plains. via AccuWeather.com

“I just felt like there was a big need for a shop that would offer big-city fashion”

Cherapa Place soon will have a restaurant in its tenant mix, which will fill the last open spot in the building along the Big Sioux River. via Argus Leader

Things may be turning around for South Dakota's buffalo ranchers. Consumer demand for buffalo meat is rising. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

South Dakota Stockgrowers will host an area meeting at the Victory Steakhouse in Edgemont, S.D., Jan. via Tri-State Neighbor

“There's been some improvements there”

By Steve Miller, Journal staff Thursday, January 03, 2008 The South Dakota Brand Board will ask legislators to raise the cap on livestock brand inspection fees, from the current 80 cents per head to $1 per ... via Rapid City Journal

Those interested in brand laws are invited to a South Dakota Stockgrowers Association meeting on Thursday. via Rapid City Journal

Bill Vronman of Buffalo, S.D., sent us this photo of his father, C.J. Vronman, moving a granary from a ranch five miles away. via Tri-State Neighbor

“What we really need now is a good wet spring”

Buffalo sold at the annual Custer State Park buffalo auction this Saturday, Nov. via Rapid City Journal

“Ultimately, the potential for our state was clear with this agreement, and she supported it because it will open an important new market for South Dakota products and benefit our overall economy”

Dakota Rural Action members say they are frustrated to learn that Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin voted in favor of the Peru Free Trade Agreement Wednesday. via ArgusLeader.com

The South Dakota Highway Patrol says a Wyoming man was killed when his pickup truck left U.S. Highway 85 and crashed about 10 miles north of Buffalo. via Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan

Funeral services for Ken Lee, 89, of Buffalo, S.D. passed away quietly at the Amie Holt Care Center in Buffalo. via The Black Hills Pioneer