On the Other Hand

with Kevin Woster

Heading back to the home country for Memorial Day, to fill up the plate and the heart

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The Post 179 color guard assembles at the Kennebec Cemetery

Kennebec-Reliance celebration offers small-town potluck, patriotic spirit

Middletent twins mirror image of Native Hope for next generation

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Kansas, left, and Kyal Middletent with grandma Mary Shields

Lower Brule brothers tell own stories of success, failure recovery

As Johnson's U.S. House campaign takes off, how long will the Happy Warrior walk the bright path?

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Dusty Johnson in Rapid City with sons Ben and Max, and wife Jacquelyn

Dusty Johnson pledges conservative values, respectful tone

It might be a Bozo the Clown plastic gun, but it still got the kid suspended for three days, plus probation

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Under the school district rules, this "weapon" mertis suspension

School rule puts even toy guns into weapons discussion

It's branding time for Jackley -- on the ranch and in the governor's race

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Attorney General Marty Jackley hangs on as Joe Norman uses the iron.

SD attorney general hopes to follow other AGs to governor's chair

Hubbel's mad as, uh, heck and not gonna take it from the GOP any more

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GOP outsider could come in swinging to governor's campaign

Hunting for Creek Freaks and what Izaak Walton had to say about wisdom and the wonders of water

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Joey Sanovia gets up close and personal with a crayfish

March for Science mixes with Earth Day Expo

Wolf Creek School -- where life and work mix as officials plan for bigger school, better future for kids

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Wolf Creek School Principal Darrell Eagle Bull

Growing student population at reservation school mixed blessing for educators

The Cooper-Woster story: hanging five, hunting big bass and finding that place in the cattails where Mepps spinners go to die

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John Cooper with, sigh, another 5-pound-plus largemouth

John Cooper still sets the hook hard on big bass

Once-packed Vivian Dance Hall still stands as Main Street symbol of musical past, changing times

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Lonis Wendt is the unofficial keeper of the Vivian Dance Hall.

Rarely used dance hall reflects Vivian's population decline

Father-daughter turkey hunting reunion adds to family lore, beats fertilizing the grass

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Melissa Johnson, her father Greg and the opening-day turkey

At 23, Melissa Johnson comes home to hunting with a bang

A hunt by any other name trims elk herd, fights chronic wasting disease in Wind Cave National Park

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The Wind Cave elk herd has been cut to fight chronic wasting disease

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Trained volunteers use guns to fight CWD

Examining the Democratic fall, Trump's mental health and the potty potshot heard 'round Durty Nelly's

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Brian Hagg talks politics while John Tsitrian and Troy Heinert listen.

Black Hills Press Club and Forum speakers consider status of state politics

Early blooming pasqueflower leads Facebook friends away from conflict, into warm recollections

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Pasqueflowers are blooming already near Rapid City's Skyline Drive

When a Facebook barrage can be a good thing

Beyond the sound of crickets, Huether considered likely U.S. House, governor candidate

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Sioux Falls Mayor Mike Huether

Second-term Sioux Falls mayor admits interest but doesn't commit, yet

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