Category Archives: News Pierre
Fort Pierre Fire Department elects officers for 2024
Members of the Fort Pierre Volunteer Fire Department have elected officers for 2024. Chief Justin Jones, who was first elected to that position in 2016, was reelected, as was Assistant Chief Tye Odden...
Dec 22, 2023 Photo courtesy of the Fort Pierre Fire Department.
Pierre partners with Boys & Girls Club for new gym floor
At their meeting this week (Dec. 19, 2023), the Pierre City Commission approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the Boys & Girls Club of the Capital Area to make improvements to the club gym. T...
Dec 21, 2023 Courtesy image.
Planning for Capitol Lake Complex remodel still includes a flaming fountain, would make room for additional war memorials
The Capitol Lake Complex by the state Capitol building in Pierre is going to be remodeled..... just what that will look like, is still up for discussion. Deputy State Engineer Kristine Day recently (D...
Dec 21, 2023 Courtesy image.
Pierre woman enters "no contest" plea connected to abuse of a child Labor Day weekend
DECEMBER 2023: A 30 year old woman from Pierre charged with abusing a child Labor Day weekend has reached a plea deal. Kelsey Howe plead "no contest" to Domestic Abuse Simple Assault. Court informatio...
Dec 21, 2023
October 2023 tax collections for Fort Pierre come in mostly higher than last year
DECEMBER 21, 2023: Tax collections were mostly up for the City of Fort Pierre in October 2023 when compared to the same month in 2022. City Finance Officer Roxanne Heezen says the general sales tax re...
Dec 21, 2023
Fort Pierre Development Corporation names winners for holiday lighting contest
DECEMBER 20, 2023: The Fort Pierre Development Corporation has selected the winners for its 2023 residential and business lighting contest. The winners are: Best Creative Use of Lights-- Tane Cronin N...
Dec 21, 2023 Courtesy photo.
Rounds, Thune and Johnson again urge US Interior Secretary to address public safety crisis on reservations
U.S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) and Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland this week (Dec. 18, 2023) urging the Departm...
Dec 20, 2023
Todd County Middle School Music Teacher surprised with $25,000 Milken Educator Award
Todd County Middle School's Albert "Bobber" Her Many Horses thought he was attending an assembly highlighting the state literacy initiative with a visit from South Dakota's secretary of education. Ins...
Dec 20, 2023 Still trying to process what he's just heard, Albert Her Many Horses receives high fives from colleagues as he walks up to accept his Milken Educator Award.
Dec. 20, 2023.
Photo credit to the Milken Family Foundation.
GFP makes improvements along Lake Sharpe shoreline in the Pierre area
DECEMBER 20, 2023: South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks staff have been working this fall to improve the shorefishing opportunities along a popular stretch of Lake Sharpe at Pierre. GFP Aquatic Habitat a...
Dec 20, 2023 Courtesy photo.
Steamboat Park in Pierre getting new playground and sidewalk
The Pierre City Commission approved a plan to build a new playground in Steamboat Park. Bryan Tipton, City Parks and Recreation Director, says it will be located just west of the entrance to the park ...
Dec 20, 2023
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