Three fire departments battled a large fire north of Lesterville Saturday. The Lesterville Fire & Rescue was dispatched to 42844 Highway 46 at approximately 11:30 Saturday morning for a possible structure fire. Paul Scherschligt with the Lesterville Fire Department says that the Scotland and Menno Fire Departments were also called to assist due to the…… read more »
The Yankton Youth Soccer Association held a groundbreaking ceremony for the First Dakota Soccer Park on Saturday morning. To date, the fundraising committee has secured approximately $1.8 million in pledges for the $2.5 million fundraising campaign. Sondra Jensen from the Yankton Youth Soccer Association Fundraising Committee says big changes are coming to Yankton… First Dakota…… read more »
The Yankton School District announced its teacher of the year. This year’s honoree is Teresa Janssen. Janssen, a seventh-grade math teacher who has been teaching for thirty-six years, says it’s the students and her co-workers that have helped keep her passion for teaching alive all of these years… Janssen says the award is a reflection…… read more »
A Scotland man was cited Thursday for defying Yankton County’s burn ban. Yankton County Chief Deputy Sheriff Michael Rothschadl says that he was notified of a controlled burn at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in a field northeast of Lesterville off of 292nd Street and 436th Avenue. Rothschadl says 61-year-old Herold Wipf, a farmhand from the Maxwell…… read more »
On Saturday, the community of Tabor will be celebrating its 150th Anniversary. In 1872, a group of Czech settlers formed the Literary Society and purchased the site of modern-day Tabor. Tabor 150th Anniversary Chairman Dennis Povondra says there will be a lot of self-guided tours throughout the day… He adds that the day’s activities will…… read more »
Each second-grade student in Yankton received a new bike helmet this week thanks to the annual bike helmet giveaway sponsored by Yankton Medical Clinic and the Yankton Rotary Club. The students gathered at the Yankton High School auditorium and learned about bike safety from the Yankton Police Department and Dr. David Withrow who used an…… read more »
Nobody was injured after a pickup pulling a disc plow hit the railroad crossing at 8th and Broadway Wednesday morning. Yankton Police Department Commander Monty Rothenberger says that on Wednesday morning at 10:30 a northbound Ram Pickup truck was pulling a disc plow. The disc plow collided with the railroad arm as it was crossing…… read more »
ZoeCare, Yankton’s only free pregnancy resource center, is expanding into a new location. ZoeCare Executive Director Rachel Jones says that they have outgrown their current location after less than two years… Jones adds that the new building has a clinic setting, which will help their clients greatly… ZoeCare is a pregnancy center that is funded…… read more »
A minor pickup fire occurred at Jr’s Oasis Wednesday morning in Yankton. Yankton Assistant Fire Chief Larry Nickels says that crews were called out by dispatch on a report of a pickup fire near the gas pumps. Nickels says that the fire was exclusive to the fuse panel of the pickup. A Yankton Police Department…… read more »
The Yankton County Commission met on Tuesday evening and implemented a county-wide burn ban. Paul Scherschligt, Director of Emergency Management, explains the motivation behind the request…. This new policy is expected to simplify the process, as well as making it less confusing for residents, as Scherschligt clarifies…. Scherschligt reminds everyone that with the absence of…… read more »
