Pass the longjohns! The Daily Beast posts a slideshow (good grief, could we just have a list?) of the 25 coldest cities in America. Topping the South Dakota entries at #5 is Watertown... which in celebration of this honor will…
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As we rush to sandbag homes in Pierre, Ft. Pierre, Yankton, and Dakota Dunes, and as some residents of those areas prepare for awful long-term evacuation, Tom Lawrence of the Mitchell Daily Republic wonders why we didn't take action sooner:…
Riding in to Madison this deceptively chilly (three layers!) spring day, I noticed something amiss: The good old motel sign outside of the erstwhile Lake Park, now slightly misnamed US-34 Motel on the west edge of town seemed a little…
Lake Herman froze over on November 22; 132 days later, northerly gales swept back over half of the rotten ice. Here's the view this morning from my favorite western shore: We're a little behind last year, when the lake was…
Was it something I said? KJAM reports Congresswoman Kristi Noem canceled a visit to Madison, where she was going to talk flooding with local officials. Nertz! She could have come to our county water quality committee meeting tonight, where I'm…
That groaning and banging you hear around Madison isn't Sharon Knowlton fretting that I just might win the school board election. It's the big crane and crew repairing the south wall of the Memorial Creek between North Harth and North…
As I consider the Madison Chamber's ambitious goal to boost sales more than 50%, and as I read the I-29 Corridor regional development stategy, I find an article that suggests a route for industrial recruitment that could support both local…
Mr. Ehrisman's passionate advocacy of snowgates and our weekend winter wonderland got me wondering why Madison's public works department doesn't use snowgates. My dad, a font of local wisdom, tells me that Madison once upon a time did install snowgates.…