The Yankton School District has updated its Safe Return to School Plan to conform to new guidelines issued the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yankton County Infection Prevention Specialist Liz Healy says the new CDC recommendations shorten COVID-19 isolation and quarantine recommendations for children and adults… Healy adds that after day five, you…… read more »
Both through art and a generous spirit, the late Scott Luken’s contributions to Yankton will have a lasting impression for generations. Luken has been posthumously named Yankton’s Citizen of the Year for 2021. Luken died suddenly last September. Yankton Area Arts Executive Director Julie Amsberry says Luken was a true leader in the arts community……… read more »
All Yankton County employees are receiving a raise and a pay stipend to ring in the new year. The ninety-six full time Yankton County employees will be receiving a 1.2 percent cost of living pay increase in addition to a one thousand forty-dollar dollar pay stipend. Yankton County Commissioner Cheri Loest cracked the numbers and…… read more »
An unidentified man received non-life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle accident Tuesday night in Yankton. Yankton Police Department Commander Monty Rothenberger says that the accident occurred at the corner of 31st Street and Broadway Avenue shortly after 7 p.m. Tuesday. The accident closed 31st Street to the west for about 45 minutes. The male was transported…… read more »
The Yankton Sioux Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in a case where a bald eagle was shot south of Wagner last month. Yankton Sioux Tribal Game Warden Preston Neal says that on December 17th he received a call about an injured eagle on the river bottom south of Wagner. Neal was able to…… read more »
The Yankton County Commissioners reorganized for the new calendar year at their meeting Tuesday evening. The first piece of business for the commissioners was an approval to increase jail fees to house out of county prisoners in the Yankton County Jail. Yankton County Sheriff Jim Vlahakis says the jail operating costs, like everything else, is…… read more »
Three sites in Vermillion have been identified as the best potential places to construct a new Clay County Jail and Law Enforcement Center. A final decision on which site is the best will be made soon by the Jail/Law Enforcement Center Facility Committee. Their recommendation will go to the Clay County Commission for possible approval.…… read more »
Stay off the ice-for now. The outdoor ice rink at Yankton’s Tripp Park along Broadway in Yankton is not ready for public use. The same applies to the ice rink at Sertoma Park. Yankton Parks and Rec Director Todd Larson says that there is some ice at the parks with grass sticking through as city…… read more »
A new year means another year of sobriety checkpoints held in South Dakota as a way to discourage people from drinking and then driving. There are fifteen sobriety checkpoints planned in different counties statewide during January, including Yankton County. Officials remind drivers not to drink and drive regardless of whether there is a checkpoint planned…… read more »
Yankton County reported a new death from COVID-19 on Monday. In addition, active cases in the state jumped to their highest level since December 16th of 2020. Yankton County Infection Prevention Specialist Liz Healy says the winter surge of COVID is upon us… Healy adds that Yankton County is also seeing an increase in flu…… read more »
