Update on Rail to Trail: Tyndall to Platte Two plus months ago, an engineering firm was chosen to do a feasibility study. I called Pierre and was told there has been a delay in starting the study due to an audit concern. There is no definite timeline on when the study will start. The friend’s group has only raised about one third of the $45,000 needed to match the grant from the transportation department (federal gas tax money). This money is only for the study, not for any construction.
Read moreUpdate on Rail to Trail: Tyndall to Platte Two plus months ago, an engineering firm was chosen to do a feasibility study. I called Pierre and was told there has been a delay in starting the study due to an audit concern. There is no definite timeline on when the study will start. The friend’s group has only raised about one third of the $45,000 needed to match the grant from the transportation department (federal gas tax money). This money is only for the study, not for any construction.
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“Once again I am asking for your support so I can continue to serve you. As a mother to three, I bring a unique perspective to serving District 19. I protect my people like I would my own children. I will always vote to do what I believe is best for the 24,143 people of my district.”
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FrankAshfordmaybeoneof the most consequential South Dakota artists that hardly anyone knows.
Read moreTabor to Platte Rail to Trail In the March-April 2024 'South Dakota Magazine' they are promoting the Rail to Trail project. It reads in part 'Tabor to Platte Rail to Trail would follow a wagon path known as the Military Road that was established in the 1860s. Twenty years later, the Milwaukee Road replaced horses with steel rails. Eventually it became known as the Napa-Platte Line.'
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South Dakota is enjoying an unusually warm and dry early spring. Snow geese passed through a couple weeks early, tulips are popping out of the ground and, in what was a relief for thousands of high school basketball fans, the annual threat of a state tournament blizzard never materialized.
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