As of Monday, March 31, 2025, S.D. Highway 46 was closed to through traffic from S.D. Highway 11 to 297th Street (Hudson Curve). This closure will be in place for the duration of the reconstruction project through November 2025.

Panther upperclassmen Bailey Link and Danica Euliss were recently in Pierre, South Dakota to experience the intricacies of state government on a first hand basis.

The North Sioux City Council held two meetings last week addressing diverse topics that ranged from preparing for local elections to tackling citizen concerns about flood mitigation and infrastructure projects.

Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) announced that Kim Cleaver Kletschke, Senior Vice President/Investments with the firm’s Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated broker-dealer subsidiary, was named to Forbes’ 2025 Bestin- State Women Wealth Advisors list.

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 many 8th grade Panthers participated in the 20th annual “Women in Science” conference.

The Dakota Valley Jazz Band showed off their musical expertise, in Vermillion, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. The Panthers were competing in the University of South Dakota’s Coyote Jazz Festival. Brian LeMaster, DV’s high school band director, was pleased to see his students bring home a runner-up finish within their class for 2A Jazz Ensembles.

A talented group of Dakota Valley middle schoolers performed Everyone Gets Eaten by Sharks by Marshal Pailet on March 17 and March 18, 2025. Both shows took place at 7 pm in the Panther’s Performing Arts Center.

On March 18, 2025, the Union County Board of Commissioners convened for their regular session at the Courthouse in Elk Point, South Dakota. The meeting began at 8:30 a.m. and was attended by Commissioners Dailey, Joffer, Kimmel, and Ustad.

Lewis Electric, in North Sioux City, has been in business since 1955 and is well known in the tri-state area for their great work and reliability. They are a third generation, family owned company. The owner, Dan Lewis, started working for his family in 1992. He took over operations in 1996 and the company moved to North Sioux City in 2014.

Groundbreaking for the Union Crossing Development, in North Sioux City (NSC), took place on Monday, March 10, 2025 at 11 am. The ceremony was well attended. Those involved with the project as well as city officials, local area news outlets, the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce and members of the community were all present. The NSC police department was on-site to direct traffic for the event which occurred west of the interstate between Dakota Dunes and North Sioux City.