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BBQ event aims to gather voters and candidates this Saturday, May 4
HOT SPRINGS – Kick your summer off with a hometown BBQ this Saturday, May 4, at the Hot Springs Mueller Civic Center from 12 noon to 3 p.m. A series of local commission and District 30 candidate forums hosted by the Fall River County Republican Party in April has resulted in over 200 attendees learning about the Republican candidates running to represent them, both locally and in the SD…
United Churches’ Hang-out Program, Club provide creative youth activities
HOT SPRINGS – What started as the Good News Sunday youth program at The United Churches in Hot Springs expanded to include an afterschool group for the community’s children ages 10 and above. The program is named the “Hang-out” and meets at the church at 342 N. Garden on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. “It’s important to give the youth a chance to develop their character-building skills and their…
Local teen qualifies for second straight trip to national bowling championship
HOT SPRINGS – This year has seen a high number Hot Springs student-athletes achieve high honors on a statewide level in several different sports.Sophomore Braden Yeager is another athlete who can be added to that list, as he is currently sitting in sixth place of his U18 division in the four-week South Dakota Youth Bowling State Tournament, with a 204 average in ‘All Event Scratch.’Despite only…
Golden West conducting fiber optic upgrade to Angostura, Hot Brook
HOT SPRINGS – In a pioneering endeavor to enhance internet connectivity and reliability, Golden West Communications has initiated an expansive project to introduce state-of-theart fiber optic internet to areas including the east side of Angostura, Hot Brook Canyon, and now extending into the rural parts of Hot Springs. This transformative project is set to revamp the digital landscape for…
Department of Education sends workforce education grants
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Four public school districts in South Dakota are receiving workforce education grants. The Department of Education announced the districts today. All four grants total just over $840-thousand. $225-thousand will go to both the Custer and Huron School Districts to expand their current CTE spaces. Hot...
Missing Custer woman found deceased
On the evening of April 23, Johnna Bense’s vehicle, and subsequently Bense, was located in rural Fall River County. Bense was deceased. Bense’s cause of death is being investigated by the Fall River County Sheriff’s Office. “This is not the outcome we were hoping for, but are...
South Dakota and Minnesota men identified as victims in fatal highway accident
EDGEMONT, South Dakota — Two victims of a fatal crash were identified by authorities in South Dakota on Saturday. Both men died after the vehicle they were in reportedly rolled several times. According to a news release from the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, the driver of the...
Two dead after car accident near Edgemont
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Michael Gembala, 55, and Roy Nielson, 64 passed away Wednesday in a single-car crash on South Dakota Highway 471. According to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, the two men were in a Ford F250 driven by Gembala that swerved off the road and rolled multiple times.
Names released in Fall River County double fatality crash
EDGEMONT, S.D. (KELO) — Two men were killed in a single-vehicle crash three miles south of Edgemont Wednesday. 55-year-old Michael S. Gembala of Edgemont, was driving a Ford F250 southbound on SD Hwy 471 when his vehicle ran off the roadway. The Ford F250 returned to the southbound lane, was over-corrected, went off the roadway again, down and embankment and rolled several times.
South Dakota Wildland Fire, National Guard team up to practice firefighting with Black Hawk helicopters
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) - South Dakota Wildland Fire and the South Dakota National Guard conducted a firefighting training exercise involving three Black Hawk helicopters flying above the Hot Springs area. The helicopter crews filled up 500-gallon buckets with water from Angostura Reservoir and doused a nearby hillside, which served...
Wildland Fire Training
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (KELO) — Crews in western KELOLAND are teaming up to get ready for wildfire season. Blackhawk helicopters were the focus of today’s training out at the Army Aviation Facility in Hot Springs. Today’s training event is a way to practice communication and tactics needed when...
New Hot Springs City Administrator working to address ordinance violations, preservation of sandstone buildings
HOT SPRINGS – After about five months on the job, new Hot Springs City Administrator Bob Nelson, Jr., has hit the ground running and helping to make progress in several muchneeded areas, including Code Enforcement and also addressing some issues with a pair of downtown sandstone buildings. Often referred to as “Bob Junior” in order to differentiate him from Mayor Bob Nelson, he took over…
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