Wagner News

By Monica Wepking, Editor An effort to practice for a pandemic through dispensing flu shots to kids at Wagner Community School and Andes Central School has been cancelled due to the lack of vaccine.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Richard John Nyman, 65, of Wagner was indicted in Charles Mix County Circuit Court Tuesday, October 27, 2009 on four felony drug counts after a search warrant assisted law enforcement in finding drugs and firearms at 400 N. Main NW in Wagner according to court records.

By: Superintendent Darrell Mueller In order to be better prepared in the event of a pandemic crisis such as the Bird Flu, the state of South Dakota established Points of Dispensing of medicine known as PODs.

Law firm Lewis, Rice & Fingersh signed a 12-year lease Oct. 21 to occupy the top six floors of the One City Centre building, with two five-year renewal options.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Ten single family dwellings for Indian Health Service staff that were scheduled to be built five miles east of Wagner will now be built in the Wagner Heights area, if the land is changed to trust status according to Richard Leasure, Yankton Sioux Tribe Project Manager.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Attorney Tom Tobin, representing Charles Mix County , and Attorney Tim Whalen, representing post 1948 landowners, both confirmed that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted them a month's extension to file a petition to ask the full court to review the panel's August 25, 2009 Yankton Sioux Tribe Reservation ...

STOCKHOLM - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo today received the first ever $1 million dollar Birgit Nilsson award at a formal award ceremony in Stockholm.

I clicked off the idiot box and clicked on my brain. It took me back to the early 1960a s when I entered teen hood.

So it gave us something of a start to read such badmouthing coming from one whose blog posts suggest he's none of the above, but is, rather, a fairly knowledgeable operagoer and a man of some considerable intelligence.

Well, BBSes have long gone the way of the dodo, and so-called eMail "lists" and Usenet a ' a kind of internationally organized and distributed BBS which actually predates the BBS format and was the first of its kind a ' are fast going the same way as they're relatively clumsy to use, and limited to posts employing text only, and plaintext at that.

30, 2009 Contact: Tom Dravland, Secretary, Department of Public Safety, 605.773.3178 Mission , Wagner to continue driver licensing services PIERRE , S.D. South Dakota 's Department of Public Safety will continue to operate driver licensing stations in Mission and Wagner while closing 15 other sites effective Oct.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Wagner Mayor Sharon Haar went to Pierre on Thursday, September 24, 2009 to make one last plea to try to keep the Wagner drivers license services open.

YOU know you're in startling proximity to a "Ring" cycle fan when you find yourself leaning slightly away from him, fearful that his pronunciation of "gesamtkunstwerk" might have a tendency to spray.

By Monica Wepking, Editor For the past couple of weeks I have encouraged citizens of Charles Mix County to contact Governor Mike Rounds to stop the October 1, 2009 shutdown of the last two Driver License Offices in Charles Mix County.

Members of the Patriot Guard Riders slowly walked along the row of large blue banners, each with a photo of a fallen soldier.

SEATTLE a ' "Ringheads" have plenty of reasons to rejoice. No fewer than four major productions of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" are popping up from coast to coast between now and 2013, the bicentennial of the great German composer's birth, drawing acolytes from across the globe to worship at the various shrines where this monumental ...

Jackbooted Nazi storm-troopers. A mad magician in drag. And a German history lesson from the days of Bismarck to the time when the vanquished nation rises from the ashes of Hitler and World War II.

Jackbooted Nazi storm-troopers. A mad magician in drag. And a German history lesson from the days of Bismarck to the time when the vanquished nation rises from the ashes of Hitler and World War II.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Andes Central School District has hired three new teachers for the 2009-2010 school year.

"... nothing wrong with failure. Experimental music is all about accepting the risk of failure.