(L-R) Election judges Mary Burggraaf, Vi Gast and Wilma Kirkeby sign in voter and school district employee Lanette Thompson on June 15 in the BVHS community room.
Brandon Valley’s bats came alive in the first of two games against Sioux Falls Post 15 East on June 9 at First National Bank Field in Brandon.
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Ella Kluver lines up a putt in recent girls’ golf action at the Brandon Golf Course. Kluver and the Lady Lynx placed 15th as a team at the Class AA state tournament.
The Corson Playhouse is reclaiming its long and rich history—literally.
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After a one-year hiatus due to COVID, the Mighty Corson Art Players (MCAP) kids’ theatre camp was back in business for a week of practice and a weekend performance of The Gingerbread Girl for families. (Below) Director and MCAP board president Brian Schipper (left) led the camp alongside his assistan director Logan Leavitt.
During the summer months, you can expect to find kids at the parks, on the baseball fields, at the library and the list goes on.
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Barber LaRon Tivis cuts 10-year-old Jahron Martin’s hair last week in his mobile shop, which was set up in the parking lot of the Brandon Retail Center.
During the second week of Addy Kenkel’s freshman year at the University of Sioux Falls, she was called to be a pastor.
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Pastor Josh Willprecht—pictured with his wife, Jessica, and their three kids, Jacob (7), Jenna (5) and Jase (3)—began his pastoral role at Celebration Church on June 1.
From Mitchell to the Naval Academy to Afghanistan to Connecticut, Father Andrew Young has what he calls “a very strange story” regarding his path to Brandon.
Hay was harvested from the 50-acre parcel of property, which is now being stripped and then mined for sand in preparation for the forthcoming Brandon 90 Plaza development. Two hotels, fast food restaurants, a bank, grocery store and more have tentatively committed to the development. Building may begin as soon as next spring.
Although the Lady Kernels from Mitchell won the 2021 ESD Conference team title June 2 on their home course, it was Harrisburg’s Reese Jansa who claimed medalist honor
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Post 131 short stop Nick Hokenstad records an out with the throw to first baseman Jaxon Haase in the first game of a double header against Sioux Falls Post 15 West last week. The two teams split victories.
Seniors (Above, from left) Natalie Moose, Kennedy Nuebel, Andrea Cain, Taia Rude and Brielle Dixon reflect on their state championship season at last week’s welcome home celebration.
Brandon Valley head track and field coach Troy Sturgeon may have said it best at last week’s welcome home celebration for the 2021 AA state co-champion Lady Lynx.
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Capt. Anastasia Quanbeck smiles next to her father, retired U.S. Navy Commander Patrick Bailey.
Anastasia Quanbeck spent 30 years charting her course through the United States Navy and, in doing so, charted the course for all that have and will follow.
