September 13th, 20220 Flamez: Tobacco and Vapor is adding a new location in downtown Vermillion. Located at 14 West Main Street, this store will be the sixth location the Flamez franchise has throughout southern South Dakota and western Iowa. The idea for a new downtown Flamez store was born on 918 E Cherry St. within the walls of the other...
November 2nd, 20211292 EDITOR'S NOTE: In a previous version of this article, The Volante misspelled Patrick Masur's name as Patrick Mesur. The Volante regrets this error. With a multitude of bars in downtown Vermillion, a new one has entered the arena. Hollarr is a new bar that opened just before Dakota Days and is owned by Patrick Masur. Masur is 26...
September 14th, 2021167 The Vermillion Area Chamber and Development Company (VCDC) officially welcomed Indigo Spa into the community with a ribbon cutting ceremony Sept 14. Indigo Spa opened downtown at 119 E. Main St. Monica Miller, owner and operator of Indigo Spa, began her spa services at the end of 2018. Due to COVID-19 and a change in spa locations,...
August 29th, 2021211 In June, the new ice cream shop Cow & Spoon opened in downtown Vermillion. Cow & Spoon is in the same building the old ice cream shop Scoops used to be in. One of the owners, Leslie Garish, said all four owners wanted to bring an ice cream shop back to Vermillion with a few...
September 12th, 202032 The Gallagher Center hosted its first “Chalk the Walk” event at the Platz in downtown Vermillion to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. In addition to honoring the first-responders on 9/11, event leader Kim Albracht said she wanted to call attention to Vermillion’s current efforts in responding to the COVID-19...
September 12th, 2020175 After a car accident that knocked out a majority of Kristian Baron’s teeth, she left college just six months before she was set to graduate with a degree in broadcast media. With a TV career no longer in her future, Baron picked up the clippers and began pet grooming over 20 years ago. Four years ago, Baron purchased Coyote...
September 1st, 202087 Last week, Vermillion bar owners met to discuss what they could do to slow down the spread of COVID-19. The result — all bars closed at 10 p.m. from Aug. 28 through Aug. 30. Nate Welch, president and CEO of the Vermillion Chamber and Development Company, said bar owners came together because they found information about how the...
August 24th, 2020186 When word of the pandemic hit Vermillion in April, downtown businesses were forced to adapt to developing COVID-19 safety policies. Café Brule and Dakota Brickhouse, which are co-owned by Jim Waters and Monica Iverson, immediately switched from in-house dining to delivery and curbside pick-up. Once the city allowed businesses to...
April 7th, 2020486 When USD students left for spring break, they thought they were leaving for a week. Now, four weeks later, students like Skye Hannasch are wishing they were back in Vermillion. Hannasch, a senior criminal justice major, has worked for the company University Tees for the last year. Through this company, she designed a T-shirt...
March 21st, 2020306A growing number of coronavirus cases have emerged in South Dakota. The state recorded 14 positive cases of COVID-19 on Friday, but that total rose to 30 by Tuesday according to South Dakota’s Department of Health. South Dakota has seen one death so far from COVID-19. Beadle and Minnehaha counties have the most cases in South Dakota,...
