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VERMILLION, S.D., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Newspaper columnist and Internet sensation Marilyn Hagerty, 86, a University of South Dakota alumna who was Al Neuharth's first editor 65 years ago, will receive the 2012 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media on Oct. 4, 2012. Hagerty, who writes columns for the North Dakota Grand Forks Herald, drew widespread media attention earlier this year when her straightforward feature story about the opening of the first...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SoDak Sports, the popular statewide weekly sports newspaper run by partners Al Neuharth and Bill Porter from 1952 to 1954, will mark its 60th anniversary with a public celebration and refreshments at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at its original office location, the Sid's Crown Liquor Store building in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D. A permanent plaque detailing the creation and eventual failure of the publication will be...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy (NYSE:NWE) today announced that an Administrative Law Judge has issued an unfavorable non-binding Initial Decision in the Dave Gates Generating Station (DGGS) Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rate proceeding. DGGS is used to provide regulation service to NorthWestern's retail and wholesale customers in Montana. As previously disclosed in our second quarter financial...
KEARNEY, Neb., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Baldwin Filters recently celebrated the 110,000 square foot expansion of its Yankton, S.D. facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120925/CG80596) Baldwin representatives and South Dakota and local officials were on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony and grand opening. "I couldn't be more pleased that a company with such a strong international presence decided to double its footprint here in...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LodgeNet Interactive Corporation (NASDAQ:LNET), the leading provider of interactive media and connectivity services to hospitality and healthcare businesses and the consumers they serve, announced that, as part of Richard L. Battista's employment as its President and Chief Executive Officer, the Company granted Mr. Battista 550,000 shares of restricted stock. 366,667 of those shares vest fully on the first anniversary of the effective...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Midco Connections, a leader in contact center solutions, has reached a significant milestone. Since 1982, Midco Connections has been dedicated to helping companies boost revenues and increase customer loyalty. Midco Connections call centers, strategically located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Fargo, North Dakota prove that the coveted US based Midwest work ethic and clear speech makes for unsurpassed quality in inbound and...
Original Green Distribution, one of the World’s leaders in sustainable, renewable and environmentally friendly building materials, has teamed with Alex White Plume and Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to design and build eco-friendly housing and community buildings. Prescott, WI (PRWEB) September 18, 2012 Original Green Distribution has officially announced plans to assist in the development of an extensive eco-community at Pine Ridge Reservation which is considered one of the...
DAKOTA DUNES, S.D., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BPI Technology, Inc., Beef Products, Inc., and Freezing Machines, Inc. (collectively, "BPI") filed a suit against the American Broadcast Companies, Inc. (ABC), ABC News, Inc., three ABC News reporters, and others for knowingly and intentionally publishing false and disparaging statements regarding BPI and its product, lean finely textured beef (LFTB). BPI alleges that ABC and others launched a concerted disinformation campaign...
On Wednesday, Sept. 5, at a rally in Rapid City, SD, members of the Native American Pe’ Sla Land Sale movement gathered to celebrate progress in securing land they consider sacred. The rally was organized by the Last Real Indians and the Lakota People’s Law Project. Two hundred and fifty people carried posters made by street artist Shepard Fairey and National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey, which read “The Black Hills Are Not For Sale.” The nine Sioux tribes of South Dakota...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Aug. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless today announced that its customers will have access to its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in more places, when the company expands its 4G LTE network on Aug. 16. in 38 markets, including communities in southeastern South Dakota, and launches coverage in 34 new markets. The expanded 4G LTE coverage area will include the communities of Canton, Freeman, Parker, Viborg and Yankton, as well as the...
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Wind Cave National Park is located in South Dakota in the United States, only ten miles away from the town of Hot Springs. The park holds 33,847 acres of cave system, and was the first national park of its kind. European explorers and Native Americans that traveled through the area knew that the cave was there, but there has been no existence of habitation found within the cave. Although the Lakota people spoke of a scared cave that produced wind, the first recorded discovery of the cave...
Badlands national Park is located in the southwest region of South Dakota. It holds 242,756 acres of land, with 64,144 acres comprising a protected wilderness area. The park was designated as a national monument in 1929 and established in 1939, but attained national park status in 1978. The Stronghold Unit area of the park is managed by the National Park Service and the Oglala Lakota tribe and holds many sights including those used for Ghost Dances in the 1890’s, a bomb and gunnery range...
Tyrannosaurus, meaning “tyrant lizard,” was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period (68 to 65 million years ago). It was among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist prior to the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Perhaps the most famous Tyrannosaurus species, T. rex, was named in 1905 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Teeth belonging to Tyrannosaurus were first discovered in 1874 by A. Lakes near Golden...
The Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii) is a seabird from the tern family, Sternidae. This bird has a number of geographical races that mainly differ in bill color and minor plumage details. S. d. dougallii breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, and winters south to the Caribbean and West Africa. Both the European and North American populations have been in long term decline, though active conservation measures have reversed the decline in the last few years at some...
