Long Lake News

As long as there have been farms there have been farm wives to help keep them running.

Friday, July 22, 2011 Contact: Mark Peterson, 626-7885 Aberdeen Area Aberdeen , S.D. The South Dakota Department of Transportation announces Asphalt Surface Treatments will be applied to multiple highways in the Aberdeen area beginning on Monday, July 25, 2011 .

Fire damaged about 1,000 round hay bales on a McPherson County farm. No one was hurt, but firefighters in shifts spent Wednesday night and much of Thursday controlling the blaze at the Ken and Nina Kunz farm southwest of Long Lake to keep it from spreading to buildings.

Some residents of the northeastern South Dakota town of Long Lake are worried that the shutdown of their post office will be permanent.

While many area residents are out of power, area stores are out of generators. Tool Crib of the North in Bismarck is completely sold out of its 5000 watt generators.