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With Sioux City’s newest wastewater agreement, Dunes residents could be seeing more money added to their sewer bills. The new contract was presented at the Dakota Dunes Community Improvement District Board of Supervisors meeting, Sept. 19.

Despite the concerns of some lawmakers and citizens, South Dakota election officials are “very confident” that the state electoral process is sound and that the 2022 general election results will be accurate and valid.

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The Dakota Dunes Community Association (DDCA) held their 8th annual Fall Festival Sunday, Oct. 2 in the afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m. The weather cooperated and it was a gorgeous fall day as residents of Dakota Dunes came to the tennis courts of the country club for entertainment, food and fun.

Elk Point-Jefferson’s Carter Langle had a good game of golf at the DAK-12 Conference at The Bluffs Golf Course in Vermillion Sept. 19. Langle finished in 9th place with a round score of 79, 7 over par of the course. He was 1 of 5 golfers to shoot this score.

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Elk Point-Jefferson School Board members were honored by the Associated School Boards of South Dakota for their collective efforts to enhance their knowledge of school board work throughout the 2021-22 school year. The Elk Point-Jefferson School Board earned a Silver level award in ASBSD’s statewide board recognition program: ALL, which stands for Act, Learn, Lead and awards points for a board’s collective participation in activities and trainings related to school board work and for demonstrating leadership in public education at the local, state and national level, throughout the previous school year. To earn the Silver level award, the Elk Point-Jefferson School Board accumulated 445 points. “School boards take on different tasks and face new challenges every year and the Elk Point-Jefferson School Board members put in a lot of work to further their knowledge of and learn new things about school board work that will be a great benefit to their district,” ASBSD Executive Director Wade Pogany said. “They’ve put in time and effort to better themselves and deserve this recognition.” In 2021-22 a record 91 public school boards – more than 60 percent of the public boards in South Dakota – earned an ALL award. This is the Elk Point-Jefferson School Board’s fourth ALL award. “South Dakota public school boards do amazing work and put in a great deal of effort for their students, staff and community members and for more than 90 of them to earn this honor is a testament to that effort,” Pogany said. “That the Elk Point-Jefferson School Board has earned this award multiple times shows that year-in and year-out this group strives to excel in their work as school board members.”

It was a battle of the dogs on the Huskies home court Sept. 20. The Huskies prevailed winning their homecoming game against the Beresford Watchdogs – 25-22; 25-23; 25-12. Alyssa Chytka led the Huskies on defense with 18 digs. Bentlee Kollbaum and Danica Torrez each recorded 9 digs. Torrez added 6 kills and was closely followed by teammates Kollbaum (5), Ashley Brewer, Josie Curry and Natalie Heuertz (all with 4).