Union pressure, community support force rare retreat in Vermillion residency fight
Light and power lineman was being forced to move from his Alcester farmstead
A Vermillion power lineman who faced termination for living four minutes too far from work will keep his job and home after the city abandoned months of disciplinary proceedings that threatened his family.
Brandon Steeneck, a military veteran and 10-year employee of Vermillion Light & Power, will continue serving the city while living at his rural Alcester farmstead 19 minutes away, four minutes beyond the city’s 15-minute residency requirement for emergency personnel.
Sioux Falls will decentralize its Spanish immersion high schoolers
The Sioux Falls School District is preparing a major change to its Spanish immersion program, one that will shift where hundreds of students attend high school beginning in the 2028–29 school year.
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