Geddes News

A plan for several rural South Dakota school districts to share staff and hold more classes online will proceed more slowly than some had hoped.

Dennis Goodwin's pitch to small towns goes something like this: You can keep your schools and sports teams, expand course offerings for students and pay teachers more, and you can do it all without raising taxes.

A Geddes, South Dakota resident foiled an early morning soybean theft. The resident noticed a semi-truck and trailer loading grain at the Geddes Elevator around 4:30 Thursday morning and reported the suspicious activity to police.

Lawmakers are encouraging small, rural schools to share teachers and make greater use of technology in order to stave off consolidation.

A historical society in Geddes, S.D., is trying to raise money to restore the circa-1870s childhood home of former Gov.