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.

The Dakota Valley Art Club was presented with a service project by North Sioux City City Administrator Eric Christensen – paint the city’s barricades. The club agreed and the city moved the barricades to the school parking lot for safety reasons.

The North Sioux City City Council started their Oct. 3 meeting with a 15-minute executive session and reconvened without a motion. Unlike the last few meetings that had standing room only, there were only a couple of people in attendance.