Elk Point’s Fore the Cure held their annual golf tournament fundraiser on June 16. They reported they raised over $24,000 to help this year’s local recipients – Larissa Coulter-Kommes and Jess LaFleur – and to help fund local scholarships.

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South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has released the final ballot explanation for the proposed constitutional amendment that would revise legislative term limits. The proposed amendment was submitted by State Sen. Brent Hoffman of Sioux Falls.

The Union County Board of County Commissioners spent a majority of their meeting June 13 listening to various department’s 2024 budget requests. In between those appointments, the commissioners discussed other business.

Thermo Bond, a privately held company headquartered in Elk Point, SD, announced the appointment of Bill Riley as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer effective June 1, 2023. Riley is a highly accomplished executive, boasting a remarkable track record of over three decades in high level accounting and finance.

Tyson Foods shared, in a press release, they will be terminating 262 corporate employees who were working at the Dakota Dunes location. Those in the corporate positions were offered the opportunity to keep their jobs if they relocated to Springdale, AK. The employees being terminated at the end of July chose not to relocate.

June is Adopt A Shelter Cat/Kitten month and with good reason this is the time that shelters start to see an increase of cats, cats and more cats. June is peak kitten season where shelters see an influx of kittens.

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The Elk Point City Council opened bids for the Emergency Storm Shelter Project at their meeting June 5. The shelter will be located in City Park just west of the current bathrooms at the end of the gravel turnaround area. Only one bid was received from Mart Brothers for $459,184.50 and was accepted by the council.

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