It was a runaway win, after a long road trip, for Dakota Valley as the varsity roster took down Lakota Tech in football on Friday, Oct. 7. The Panthers put up big numbers in the end zone while shutting out their opponent. The final score under the Friday night lights was 49-0 in favor of the Panthers.

The Panther varsity golf team travelled to Aberdeen, SD on Oct. 3 and 4 to take part in the Class A state golf tourney held at Moccasin Creek Country Club. The Dakota Valley golfers played well and tied for 3rd place as a team out of 12 competing schools. Two players, Logan Collette and Dylan Lukken, brought home individual medals as the two young men tied for 14th place.

The third grade classes at Dakota Valley have been extremely busy the past two weeks as they went on field trips to the IBP Ice Center and to Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve. On Wednesday, Sept.

The squad for Dakota Valley dance travelled to Brandon Valley High School Tuesday, Oct. 4 to take on multiple Class AA and Class A districts in competition.

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The Panther competitive cheer team had an impressive showing at Brandon Valley on Tuesday, Oct. 4. The squad went up against a number of bigger Class AA schools, as well as some strong competitors from Class A.

The Dakota Valley cross country team has looked strong all season and the DAK-12 conference meet at Elk Point on Thursday, October 6th was no exception for this talented group of runners. Both the girls and boys varsity squads took home 3rd place in an extremely competitive conference with multiple individual medal winners and personal record bests achieved.

The Dakota Valley girls soccer team advanced to the state playoffs as a #6 seed to go up against #3 seed Sioux Falls Christian on Tuesday, Oct. 4. This would be the 3rd meeting for the 2 schools and in previous match-ups the Panthers had fallen in close games both times to the Chargers.

It was a successful outing for the Dakota Valley varsity teams as both the girls and boys ran well and came home runner-ups from the Vermillion Invite on Monday, Oct. 3. Sophomore Jack Brown placed 2nd for the boys and ran an incredible race against Beresford’s Andrew Atwood. Brown ran his race in 16:46 on The Bluff’s Golf Course. In the past this race has been run across from the University of South Dakota’s DakotaDome. Brown has set the bar high by registering the top DV time at Vermillion for The Bluff’s 5K.

It was a long day for the Union County Board of County Commissioners with a packed agenda Tuesday, Oct. 4. After a brief executive session for personnel matters, the board reconvened and appointed Sherri Bousquet as the Interim Director of Equalization through Nov. 30. In another personnel matter, except this time in open session, Union County State’s Attorney Jerry Miller discussed his position and salary with the commissioners. He presented multiple charts regarding what other like counties are paying their state’s attorney. Based off his calculations and charts presented to the board, Miller is making less than all the other state’s attorneys. He showed, through his information, that there are some state’s attorneys that have less longevity than he does and are making way more than him.