JoAnn Schaefers recently completed 40 years of covering news for Orient and Polo for her local newspapers, The Faulk County Record and Miller Press. Following is a column Schaeffers wrote to commemorate this occasion.
AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is serving with staff of Sica Hollow State Park from Sept. 3-27 to restore sections of the trail to make them safer and more accessible for both horseback riding and hiking at the park.
The team of eight from the Vinton, IA, campus have been members of NCCC for seven months and are enjoying their time in Lake City. The team is focusing on repairing and installing water bars as well as clearing the trail corridor along the 10-15 mile trail.
Months of persistent drought in 2012, a cold, wet spring in 2013 and a reduction in habitat have impacted pheasant brood counts, according to a report released last week by the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department.
Marshall County Healthcare Center is proud to have a rural hospital with state of the art technology, according to Hospital CEO Nick Fosness.
Back in 2006 when Stacy Hadrick and husband Troy became rural advocates, Stacy thought blogging wouldn’t amount to much.
Heat and humidity have put a wrench in a number of activities in the Marshall County area during the past week, and the hot, dry weather is also expected to impact crops.
If the physician shortage is the result of too much demand (for health care services) and too little supply (physicians to provide health care services), the marketplace answer would be to either lessen demand or increase supply. Policymakers are trying to adjust both sides of this equation to make sure that people get the care they need when they need it.
See how the two Dakotas would fare if they chose to expand Medicaid, and who is left out if they do not.
Though the project is still in its infancy, a Faulkton Out of School Program Steering Committee is now to the point where they are looking to hire someone as a program director.
The two Dakotas are similar in many respects, but at least for now have fallen on two different sides of this issue. With North Dakota enacting the Medicaid expansion, how will the two states fare differently if South Dakota does not expand Medicaid? Check out two infographics to see how Obamacare would affect you and your state.