November 19th, 2019115South Dakota is on meth. Governor Kristi Noem launched a very confusing and controversial anti-meth campaign, “Meth: We’re On It” on Monday to bring awareness to the meth epidemic in South Dakota. The campaign will include a TV ad, billboards, posters and a website: onmeth.com. The truth is, the whole thing seems kind of...
November 19th, 2019846 After forty years without an upgrade, the sidewalks and street corners of downtown Vermillion could have a different look by 2021. The $2,450,000 Downtown Streetscape project will remodel Main Street’s streets and sidewalks, adding landscaping and seating features outside of businesses from McVicker Plaza to North Dakota...
November 18th, 201951 To attract students outside the borders of South Dakota, the Board of Regents offered a tuition break to students from Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Colorado at the beginning of the 2019 fall semester. This is the first semester the university has had to market the tuition advantage to students from theses states. In the fall...
November 15th, 2019529 Mothering three young children and managing a team of 17 young adults requires the same elements: work, time and dedication. USD head volleyball coach Leanne Williamson wears both hats, and if a 25-1 record and regular-season title mean anything, she's finding great success. Williamson found herself on the road almost every weekend...
November 14th, 201954 USD vs Drake The Coyotes clawed back from a 17-point third-quarter deficit to take down Drake in a 102-94 overtime thriller in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center Wednesday night. Down by two with two seconds to go in regulation, junior guard Monica Arens intercepted a Drake pass for one final Coyote possession. After a timeout,...
November 12th, 2019240 At this time five years ago, Angela and Glenn Pulse of Prairie Sun Organics, a 15-acre farm three-and-a-half miles north of Vermillion, harvested the last of their finest yield of corn from the land they bought nine years ago. The season produced 12-foot stalks that turned $1,800 per acre, they said. But following South Dakota’s...
November 11th, 201957From Disney to the Wayne S. Knutson Theater stage, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is coming to life as the largest USD Theatre Department production since 2013. With a crew of over 60 people, Raimondo Genna, the director and chair of the USD Theatre Department, said the school hasn’t seen this size of cast since their production of...
November 10th, 2019102 In the landlocked state of South Dakota, hurricanes are nothing more than distant news. However, one Vermillion resident felt the impact from 2,500 miles away and, through a supply collection and community donations, hopes to respond with aid by the end of the year. Vermillion resident Gregory Robinson partnered with Amish Soap...
November 10th, 201943 USD (4-6, 3-3 MVFC) snapped another three-game losing streak Saturday, defeating Youngstown State (5-5, 1-5 MVFC) 56-21 on Military Appreciation Day inside the DakotaDome. “Things haven’t gone our way these last three weeks,” head coach Bob Nielson said after the game. “We haven’t played the kind of football that I have...
November 5th, 2019213 From rural Iowa to the mountains of Afghanistan to USD, Gregg Taylor took his self-proclaimed life of “mediocrity” and decided to start over. His new beginning: a combat engineer in the United States Army. At age 18, despite his father’s hesitation, Taylor became a fourth-generation enlisted Army soldier. He...
