Ah, there are fireworks back home. On Tuesday, the Madison Chamber of Commerce said it couldn’t afford to put on the city’s traditional July 4th fireworks…
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When I was growing up in Madison, the water tower—the water tower, back when there was only one—figured prominently in my sense of local geography.…
Governor Kristi Noem and Senator John Thune opposed President Joe Biden’s effort to include child care in his infrastructure investments. (Governor Noem also got all…
Watch out, Mom! There’s a mountain lion in Madison—or at least there was last night, according to video from the Lake County Sheriff’s Department posted…
An eager Lake County reader reports that the Madison City Commission last night swerved to avoid crashing into campaign finance law. As I reported yesterday,…
Falling further down the Madison/LAIC rabbit hole, I notice the good old MadisonSD.com website—Discover the Unexpected!™—still advertises Madison’s tech-hipness by displaying a Blackberry with a…
In other Madison news, Brookings-based First Bank and Trust is helping cover the cost of renovating the old Campbell’s Supply/Runnings building on Northeast Third Street…
Lake County voters are voting through September 19 on an opt-out referendum to increase property taxes by $2.8 million. At tonight’s Madison City Commission meeting,…
Everybody likes music downtown, even folks back in Madison. Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce chief Eric Hortness says the Downtown in Madtown free concert series…
Brookings resident Mick Jensen tweets this unpleasant ridiculousness sullying the drive to Madison on Highway 81: These scrawly billboards epitomize the contradictive lies and hypocrisy…