GHS All School Play, “A Trip to the Moon” @ 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 29th

            On Monday, April 29, the Garretson Drama Department will be presenting, "A Trip to the Moon" by Tracy Wells. The 16-scene play takes place in 1969 and each...

Historic Preservation Grant Awarded to the Split Rock Bathhouse  

PIERRE— The Split Rock Bathhouse in Garretson recently was awarded a matching grant from the South Dakota State Historical Society,...

Garretson FFA Finds Success at the 96th State FFA Convention

Submitted by Brooklyn Trudeau, Reporter             Brookings, SD- The 96th South Dakota State FFA Convention was held on April...

New county candidates observe April 23rd commission meeting

By Dave Baumeister County correspondent SIOUX FALLS – Three new county commission candidates were all on-hand Tuesday, April 23, to...

GHS Agritalk podcast is live

            As regular readers might recall, back in our Feb. 22nd issue we had a story about our...

COVID-19

South Dakota received $14 billion of federal pandemic relief

Bart Pfankuch South Dakota News Watch South Dakota received nearly $14 billion in federal COVID-19 funding from March 2020 through January, according to an internal state...

Rising anger and violence toward healthcare workers hampering patient care in S.D.

Bart Pfankuch South Dakota News Watch Increasing anger and even violence toward healthcare workers in South Dakota and across the U.S. is adding great stress on...

South Dakota COVID-19 cases finally declining statewide, 203 total deaths for January 2022

            After hitting a record high of 36,247 reported active cases of COVID-19 on January 24, South Dakota is on the back side of...

Letter to the Editor: Garretson Schools Move to “Yellow” Status

To: All parents, guardians and patrons of the Garretson School District Greetings,             The number of Covid-19 cases in the region continue to climb, and the...

Many South Dakota parents hesitant to get children vaccinated against COVID-19

Megan Raposa South Dakota News Watch Compared to other Great Plains states, South Dakota is off to a slow start in getting children ages 5-11 vaccinated...

Political partisanship driving vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota

Editor's Note 9-29-21: Due to a formatting error, a portion of the article was omitted from the printed issue. Due to this, we have...

COVID-19 numbers are back on the rise!

On Tuesday, the South Dakota Department of Health announced 720 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 65 probable cases. This was in addition to the...

No COVID protocols for high school sports this fall

By Dana Hess For the S.D. Newspaper Association PIERRE — The pandemic-inspired safety protocols that high school athletes needed to adhere to last year will not...

Editorial: Balancing public health and individual liberties

To the editor: Protection of individual freedom or liberties is among the essential elements of our democracy. The most important of these liberties are enumerated...

School to start as normal on Aug. 19, though Delta variant of the Coronavirus is on the rise

The Garretson School District will be starting classes on Thursday, August 19, with an in-person option only. During the 2020-21 school year, several changes were...

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is strong among South Dakota youths

Danielle Ferguson, South Dakota News Watch Healthcare professionals say vaccinating young people against COVID-19 this summer is critical to reaching herd immunity against the virus and...

CDC COVID-19 Study Shows mRNA Vaccines Reduce Risk of Infection by 91 Percent for Fully Vaccinated People

Vaccination Makes Illness Milder, Shorter for the Few Vaccinated People Who Do Get COVID-19 A new CDC study finds the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines authorized by...

Enter your email to receive our weekly news updates!

Submitting...

Thank you for signing up!

Log In

s2Member®