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Oct. 7, 2024 Taco John’s is coming to Tea. The restaurant will be in a strip mall that’s under construction on the northwest corner of the Interstate 29 exit. “That has been a hot topic for a long time,” Ted Miller said of bringing the national chain to the community. Miller is vice president of operations for the franchise group. “This just worked out great with Cresten Properties putting up the strip mall.” The restaurant, which will have a do…

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Taco John's is coming to Tea

HARRISBURG, S.D. (KELO) -- Starting Thursday, Lincoln County will be sending more crews to respond to fires that break out in dry farm fields. The fall harvest has been made all the more challenging because of warm and windy conditions. That has both farmers and firefighters taking more precautions. Giant combines practically disappear in a cloud of dust in the dry bean fields west of Harrisburg. It's almost like driving a car in a wintry blizza…

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Lincoln County triples-down on responding to field fires

The Lincoln County Commission has formed a committee to explore the possibility of creating a public defender’s office, a response to rising caseloads in the rapidly growing communities in south Sioux Falls and beyond.The committee will explore three possibilities: Retain the status quo of contracting with private attorneys to provide criminal defense counsel for the indigent; create a standalone public defender’s office; or join with Minnehaha …

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Lincoln County to explore option of creating public defender's office

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Monarch Development Partners broke ground on a new 64-acre housing subdivision in Canton Tuesday. In a press release from Canton's Economic Development Corporation and Sioux Metro Growth Alliance, it was stated that EXP Development teamed up with Canton's local economic development organization to bring more single-family homes and multi-family units to the community.  “Canton Economic Development Corporation has been…

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Ground broken on new housing development in Canton

LARCHWOOD, IA & LENNOX, S.D. (KELO) -- A Lennox police officer is garnering praise after pulling people from a car that was engulfed in flames in northwest Iowa. There are still burn marks and some debris left behind in a ditch near Larchwood, Iowa after the crash last Thursday. 
	
		No South Dakotans on Forbes’ 400 richest people list	   A Ford Raptor was driving northbound on Beech Avenue, but it failed to stop at a stop sign, striking the pas…

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'A hero': Off-duty officer saves 5 from fiery crash

Roger Heidinger, with the help of family and friends, produced a parody video promoting their pumpkin business in Tea. This year's version already has nearly 100,000 views in five days on Facebook.

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Boom: Pumpkin Man from Tea blows up social media

Sept. 26, 2024 This paid piece is sponsored by Sioux Metro Growth Alliance. Swim season 2025 can’t arrive soon enough for kids in Canton, who got a taste of what next summer will bring with the late-season opening of a long-awaited community swimming pool. “It feels good,” said Todd Gannon, who chaired the effort for seven years – through the pandemic and resulting cost escalations.  For years, the vision has been to return a pool to a community…

New housing development, pool, employers chart strong momentum in Canton

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (KELO) -- The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is seeing an uptick in complaints of drivers not obeying stop signs on school buses. Since the start of the school year, Sgt. Chris Kuntz with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department says school buses have had to deal with an increase in reckless drivers. "Complaints this year have been on mainly rural roads, county roads and state highways," Kuntz said. One of the problems that …

Careless driving near school buses rising in Lincoln Co.

CANTON, S.D. (KELO) — Even though Election Day isn't until Nov. 5, ballots are coming into the Lincoln County auditor's office. "We have had people nonstop at the counter. We've been mailing out ballots nonstop. It's been very busy," the county's election coordinator Kayla Delfs said. "I think it's 150 a day, at least in person," county auditor Sheri Lund said. 
	
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HARRISBURG — The Harrisburg Tigers have been the No. 1 team in the 11AAA ranks all season, but having not yet played any of the other heavyweights in this year's race, it was hard to know how good they really are.   Friday night they began a meatgrinder of a stretch that should let everyone know exactly where the Tigers stand, hosting No. 4 Sioux Falls Jefferson, ahead of a trip to No. 2 Brandon Valley and then the season finale at home against …

11AAA football: No. 1 Harrisburg holds off late rally from No. 4 Jefferson

CANTON, S.D. — A former Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy is facing criminal charges after prosecutors say he stole money from a local police union.   Matthew Wilson, 39, of Sioux Falls, was indicted Wednesday, Oct. 9, on one count of grand theft of an amount between $2,500 and $5,000.   According to a spokesman for the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office, Wilson exercised unauthorized control over funds that belonged to the Lincoln County Frat…

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