Pioneer Review
In 2025, the federal Healthy Start program partnered with Feeding South Dakota and Avera to create emergency food supplies for obstetric and pediatric patients experiencing food insecurity during visits to Avera facilities. The initiative quickly expanded, leading to the establishment of small...
More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States each year. This February, during American Heart Month, the American Heart Association is calling on everyday citizens to be agents of change by stepping in as the first responder until professional help arrives.Nine out of...
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It’s October of 1958 and Alex Stoeser, age 32, sits in the Potter County Courthouse, flanked by his father, Albert, and his brother, Eugene, with a frozen expression. The intense stare showed the grief stamped on his face. Last May (1958), Alex was living on a ranch northwest of...
Dalton Grimes and his great gelding Docs Wild Twist, “Hammer”, won the South Dakota Quarter Horse Association Horse of the Year.
Scotchman Industries has announced the retirement of longtime National Sales Manager Mike Albrecht and the appointment of Bradly Kuchenbecker as his successor. Mike will retire in April after 31 years of dedicated service with Scotchman Industries. During his tenure, he played a key role in...
The South Dakota Sportswriters Association has announced its year-end awards for 2025.Recognition is given to the top athlete, coach and team for high school girls and boys, and college women and men. Also recognized are the “independent” male and female athlete of the year, “independent” team of...
December 31, 1925Totals from railroad shipments made out of Philip during the past year include alfalfa seed - 12 cars; cattle - 204 cars; hogs - 143 cars; wheat - 50 cars; poultry - five cars, and cream - 12,500 ten gallon cans. This is the record for what is considered in some quarters a rather...
During their first seminar, the 22 members of the South Dakota Agricultural and Rural Leadership Class XIII cohort visited the South Dakota State University College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences last week to learn about the wide-reaching impact of the college, and the university,...
I gazed out the window watching large snow flakes slowly fluttering to the ground, as my thoughts turned to another time and place. In my mind’s eye it was again Christmas 1951. I was a 19 year old infantryman, on a ridge line that over looked the Kumhwa Valley, Korea. A few hundred yards across...
