Hamlin County News

A tornado warning has been issued for southeast Clark County and southwest Hamlin County until 4 p.m. Shortly before 3 p.m., Doppler Radar indicated a tornado six miles northwest of Willow Lake, moving east at 25 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Aberdeen.

SDLake Poinsett,0154 Battle brewing over Lake Poinsett water ESTELLINE, S.D. A hearing is set for Thursday in Pierre in a battle that's brewing over water in Lake Poinsett , near Estelline.

Above and below South Dakota lies water - groundwater trapped in sandy, rocky deposits below the prairie and surface water that fills the state's lakes, creeks, streams and rivers.

The South Dakota Water Management Board is scheduled to decide July 9 whether to allow Big Sioux River water into Lake Poinsett in southern Hamlin County.

Warm weather is melting the hefty northeastern South Dakota snowpack, and some local roads already are flooded.

Lincoln County will receive $177,000 in federal stimulus money for transportation projects, but none of the county's small towns will see any of it.

South Dakota is being allocated $183 million from the federal economic stimulus package for transportation projects.