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COMING EVENTS
PARKSTON
Food Bank Distribution: First and third Tuesday of every month, 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.; NEW LOCATION: 106 East Main Street, back room of Meraki Boutique. Use the entrance in the alley.
Feeding South Dakota: Third Thursday of every month, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Salem Lutheran Church parking lot.

Monday, November 9
The Parkston School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Elementary Conference Room.

Tuesday, November 10
The City of Parkston will meet in City Hall at 7 p.m.

TRIPP
Monday, November 9
The Tripp-Delmont School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Tripp Attendance Center.

DIMOCK
Monday, November 9
The Town of Dimock will meet at 7 p.m.

AREA
Weekly
Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting will meet Sunday at 7 p.m. at the Ethan Methodist Church basement. For more information, call 605-770-5410.

Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon will meet Friday at 8 p.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Please use the north entrance. For more information, call 605-505-0310.

Tuesday, November 10
The Hutchinson County Commissioners will meet in the Courthouse in Olivet at 9 a.m.

Parkston School Board
to meet November 9
The Parkston School Board will meet Monday, November 9, in the Elementary Conference Room at 6:30 p.m.
Preliminary agenda items include: Call to Order; establish a quorum; Pledge of Allegiance; open forum/public input; approve agenda/changes to agenda; conflict of interest; approve consent agenda-approve October minutes, approve claims, approve coaching contracts; information/staff reports-high school principal, elementary principal/athletic director, superintendent; agenda items-Policy Review first reading IJ, IK, IKA, IKAB, IKB, IKE, Policy Review second reading IIBGA, IIBGB, IIC, IICC, IICD, approve Policy Review third reading IHC, IIA, IIAA, IIBA, IIBD, IIBFA, approve October financial report, approve resignation of Tyler Hockett 6 to 12 business teacher and head boys and girls golf coach, consider school attorney request for financial support to attend National School Law Conference; executive session Personnel SDCL 1-25-2-1 employee matter; and adjournment.
The Parkston School Board wants to foster community feedback and input. Anyone who wishes to talk to the board about any topic is encouraged to do so. A place on the agenda is reserved for such conversations under 'visitor and correspondence.' The Board asks that you contact the superintendent in advance so that necessary arrangements, if required, can be made.

Local FFA Horse Evaluation Team places eighth in the nation
The National FFA Horse Evaluation Career Development Event (CDE) winners were announced during the fourth session of the 99th National FFA Convention and Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana, Wednesday, October 21, to Saturday, October 24.

Merry Halloween
It was two holidays at one time as this family recreated the Christmas holiday classic, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, at the annual Trunk or Treat on Parkston's Main Street this past Saturday.

Scoreboard
Parkston Trojan Johnny Weber goes high to try and break up the pass attempt by Bon Homme quarterback Madden Merkway in the second round of the Class 9AA playoffs in Parkston.

A Second Look
If you were eating breakfast at The Bank in Milbank one morning in May 2025, you may have seen a man with several cameras and a laptop hanging from his neck, dodging cars on Main Street and Third Avenue.

Winter vehicle maintenance starts now
Changing seasons expose vehicles to various conditions throughout the year.

PRAIRIE DOC
An eating disorder doesn't have a body type
When most people think about an eating disorder, they picture someone who is very thin or visibly unwell.

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Trunk 'R Treat
The sprinkles stopped and the sun made a very brief appearance at the annual Trunk or Treat on Main Street, Tripp, last Saturday.

State cross country
Four members of the Tripp-Delmont/Armour cross country team competed in the 2026 State B Cross Country Meet at Hart Ranch, Rapid City. South Dakota Public Broadcasting | ©2026 SDPB | Tim Tushla

South Dakota Poll: Showing our math
Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy, ranked as one of the least-biased and most-factual pollsters, conducted the survey of 500 likely voters in the state Monday, October 12, to Wednesday, October 14.

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