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07/21/2009
KLEM NEWS UPDATE-PM
(LE MARS--HOMEWORK--THAT'S THE RESULT OF TODAY'S PLYMOUTH COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DISCUSSION ABOUT COURTHOUSE OFFICE SPACE.
SUPERVISORS HAVE PROPOSALS FROM TWO FIRMS FOR CONSULTANT WORK INVOLVING ENGINEERING. .
BOARD MEMBERS NOTED A DIFFERENCE IN PRICE AND WONDERED IF THE SERVICES BEING OFFERED THAT THEY WERE COMPARING WERE APPLES AND ORANGES.
SUPERVISORS CRAIG ANDERSON AND MARK LOUTSCH ARE TO DO ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND REPORT BACK TO SUPERVISORS.
THE BOARD IS CONSIDERING A ONE-STORY 35-36-HUNDRED SQUARE FEET ANNEX BUILDING TO BE LOCATED ON THE FORMER SHERIFF'S OFFICE-JAIL LOCATION SOUTHEAST OF THE COURTHOUSE. BOTH A STICK BUILT AND A MODULAR STRUCTURE ARE BEING DISCUSSED WITH NO VOTE BEING MADE.
SUPERVISORS TODAY SIGNED AN AGREEMENT THAT ALLOWED THE COUNTY TO RECEIVE FEDERAL STIMULUS FUNDS FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND PAVING OF A PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD K-22 FROM THE SIOUX CITY LIMITS NORTH FIVE MILES. THE PROJECT IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS. FEDERAL FUNDS WILL PAY FOR ONE PART WHILE FARM TO MARKET FUNDS WILL BE USED FOR THE BALANCE OF THE WORK. BIDS ARE TO BE OPENED FOR THE MORE THAN THREE MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT IN OCTOBER WITH CONSTRUCTION NEXT YEAR. ABOUT ONE-POINT-TWO MILLION DOLLARS OF THE THREE-MILLION DOLLAR PROJECT WOULD BE FEDERALLY STIMULUS FUNDS.
(WASHINGTON, D-C)--SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT WILL RECEIVE MORE THAN 600-THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
SENATOR TOM HARKIN ANNOUNCED THE MONEY AS A SENIOR MEMBER OF THE PANEL THAT FUNDS TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVES.
HARKIN SAYS HE'S PLEASED THAT SIOUX GATEWAY AIRPORT HAS RECEIVED FUNDS TO IMPROVE ITS TERMINAL BUILDING.
THE TERMINAL BUILDING WAS BUILT IN THE 1950S. THE FUNDS WILL ALSO BE USED TO REPLACE THE PASSENGER BOARDING BRIDGE WHICH HAS EXCEEDED ITS SERVICE LIFE AND ABILITY TO BE MAINTAINED.
(DOW CITY)--A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN CRAWFORD COUNTY NEAR DOW CITY HAS CLAIMED A LIFE.
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT REPORTS 34-YEAR-OLD TIMOTHY GORHAM OF WOODBINE WAS TRAVELING SOUTH ON A CRAWFORD COUNTY ROAD AND LOST CONTROL ON THE CURVE THAT INTERSECTIONS WITH ANOTHER COUNTY ROAD. GORHAM'S VEHICLE SLID INTO THE DITCH AND ROLLED ONE TIME, LANDING ON ITS WHEELS.
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE REPORTS GORHAM WAS NOT WEARING A SEATBELT AND DIED. THE ACCIDENT WAS REPORTED ABOUT 1:30 THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A federal appeals court dismissed an appeal filed by three American Indians over a large-scale hog farm owned by 11 northwest Iowa farmers.
Frances Zephier (ZEH'-feer), Robin Bair and Rachel Bernie filed the complaint in April 2008 against Longview Farm of Hull.
The three say they are members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and Ponca Tribe in Nebraska.
The lawsuit sought to stop construction of the farrowing operation, but it opened last fall.
Longview filed a separate federal complaint against the Yankton Sioux Tribe, its tribal court and several officials.
A federal judge dismissed both complaints.
The tribal members appealed, but the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed it.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) A Sioux Falls bank shut down by regulators has reopened under a new name.
BankFirst is now operating as First Dakota National Bank, after the Yankton-based bank acquired its deposits.
President Mike Ness says a lot of customers are asking if their money is safe and he says it is.
Nearly 60 federally insured banks in the U.S. have failed this year. The South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation shut down the BankFirst site in Sioux Falls on Friday. BankFirst's ownership was transferred to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which immediately conferred the bank's loans and deposits to private buyers already in place.
State officials say it is the first time in more than 20 years that they've had to close a bank. And Roger Novotny, director of the Banking Division in the Department of Revenue and Regulation, says the BankFirst shutdown is not an indication of widespread problems in the state.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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