Watertown News

WATERTOWN - A spokesman for the South Dakota National Guard says his office has been busy fielding calls from people wondering if any South Dakotans were involved in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, but he says none were.

The search and rescue workers used a boat and a pair of jet skis to find the canoe and rescue the victims.

A panel discussion on increasing South Dakota's college graduation rate is scheduled for Thursday at the the Orpheum theater in downtown Sioux Falls.

Clinics across South Dakota have seen thousands of people come through their doors.

Children in Rapid City and Watertown are among the first in South Dakota to roll up their sleeves for an H1N1 vaccine clinic.

H1N1 vaccination clinics are being held across South Dakota. Doors opened at an immunization clinic at the Codington County Extension Building in Watertown at 10 a.m. Wednesday, and there was a line of people waiting to get in.

WATERTOWN, S.D. - The superintendent of schools in Henry, Brian Sieh, on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge.

Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: CASINO-GAMING COMMISSION Gaming board won't probe allegations WATERTOWN, S.D. The South Dakota Gaming Commission says it can't investigate allegations against the chairman of the Sisseton- Wahpeton Oyate Tribe over a firing and alleged conflicts of interest.

City of Brandon employees were presented a Gold Level Loss Control/Safety Achievement Award at the annual South Dakota Municipal League Conference in Watertown on Oct.

The missing handshake, the surprise day off and an empty school are signs of the flu this fall in South Dakota.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/14/2009 7:31 AM I suppose Bob Ellis will call these patriots evil liars , too... . It's easy for opponents of the American Clean Energy and Security Act to portray supporters as whiners and environmental Kool-Aid drinkers who want to harm America.

I had the pleasure of attending the ASCLS Region V Annual Meeting this past week in Watertown, South Dakota.

A group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans touring the country in support of climate legislation told Sioux Falls residents Thursday climate change is a national security issue during a stop at the VFW.

Military veterans are traveling across the country on a 21-state bus tour to talk to citizens and local community leaders about the dangers of climate change and its threat to national security.

Watertown Coffee is a few blocks south of the cool kids of culinary gulch on 12th Avenue.

The flu is hitting some South Dakota schools hard. Great Plains Lutheran High School in Watertown decided to cancel classes Wednesday.

The VA Hospital in Sioux Falls has chosen a permanent location for its Watertown outpatient clinic.

Custom blow molder Blow Molded Specialties Inc. shut down its Watertown, S.D., plant earlier this year, and consolidated some of the machinery into its headquarters facility in Foley, Minn.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness of Sioux Falls is sponsoring a vigil and candlelight walk this evening as part of a kickoff to Mental Illness Awareness Week.

South Dakota has been an open-shop state since 1946, when a constitutional amendment passed to forbid using union membership as a condition of employment.