Mustang baseball’s bats go quiet at Concordia-SP
C/M places 8th at SDSU’s Scott Underwood Invite
BROOKINGS, S.D. — The Canby/Minneota girls track and field team led area participants with an eighth–place finish at the Scott Underwood ...
A proper send-off for retiring county dispatcher
Mary Gislason retired on March 25 after 43 years of service as an emergency dispatcher in Lyon County. Appropriately, members of the Lyon County Sheriff Department ...
Volunteers making a difference by organizing fairs and summer festivals
In an interview with Independent Editor Mike Lamb, longtime Wabasso Lions Club member Dean Fischer says he lives by many mottos. There is one, ...
What makes America great?
To the editor: The World Book Dictionary” lists thirteen possible definitions for the word “great”. The adjective can describe size, quantity, importance, ...
When will dictators suffer the consequences?
To the editor: In my search for the meaning of life I began to identify as a borderline atheist but thanks to the edicts handed down by Donald ...
Adventures in babysitting
Babysitting a 4-year-old boy is not for the faint of heart nor for anyone who hasn’t spent at least six months training for a triathlon. Toddlers are perpetual ...
Education and training: two very different learning processes
The consequences of lack of empathy
Ted DeRoode
GHENT—Ted DeRoode, age 83, of Ghent, Minnesota, died on Friday, April 4, 2025, at the Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Memorial Services ...
