SCOUTING REPORT | Jail open for business, awarding police officers, This Far Country, new trees in Brookings
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Let it be known here and wide to criminals in northcentral South Dakota that the new Edmunds County Jail is open for business. And accepting guests.
The brand new, $8.4 million lockup facility had its first bookings on April 20, The Aberdeen Insider reported. Seven of them.
“We’re doing a soft opening,” Sheriff Jonathan Waldner told the paper, likening the new jail to the opening of a new restaurant.
South Dakota tech schools, universities forge relationships in bid to help students advance
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The University of South Dakota’s Beacom School of Business and Southeast Technical College are deepening a relationship by allowing STC students to transfer more credits for a four-year degree.
