Full-time city employees in Brookings could have $2,000 in extra cash coming their way at the end of November if an ordinance passes muster with the Brookings City Council.

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. (Psalm 139)

University Lutheran Center students and Pastor Cassandra Lamb brought their volunteer spirit to the Oct. 2 mission projects ingathering at the parking lot of First Lutheran Church in Brookings.

BROOKINGS – On Oct. 30 from 3 to 5 p.m., the whole community is invited for Trunk or Treat at GracePoint Wesleyan Church. This is a free outdoor event providing a safe, family friendly evening of fun, with the most candy per square block in Brookings.

PIERRE – The deadline for college or university students to apply to serve as legislative interns for the 2023 legislative session has been extended to Oct. 21.

PIERRE – The South Dakota Department of Education is pleased to announce that Lake Preston Elementary and Whitewood Elementary (Meade School District) have been named 2022 National ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Distinguished Schools. They will be honored at the National ESEA Conference to be held in February 2023.

PIERRE – A total of 23 sobriety checkpoints in 16 counties are scheduled during October, according to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.

SIOUX FALLS – South Dakota’s Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday authorized its staff to begin reviewing an application for a pipeline designed to transport carbon dioxide from ethanol refineries to an underground site in Illinois, assessing a filing fee of up to $400,000.

BROOKINGS – The Brookings Noon Lions will be out in Brookings on Friday and Saturday to raise funds and awareness about the blind and visually impaired during annual White Cane Days.

SIOUX FALLS (AP) – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Wednesday she would not call a special legislative session to have lawmakers consider repealing the state’s tax on groceries ahead of the November election, despite calls to do so from a handful of Republican lawmakers as well as her Democratic challenger.

ASTORIA – A teenager from Astoria was taken to Brookings Health System following a Tuesday accident a few miles south of Astoria, according to a news release from the Brookings County Sheriff’s Office.

The Brookings Bobcats competed on Oct. 8 at the US Bank Stadium for the 18th Annual Youth in Music Marching Band Competition.

BROOKINGS – Woodbine Productions has secured the only South Dakota performance by world-renowned big band, The Legendary Count Basie Orchestra on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. at The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center. For this show only, on their current tour, Grammy award winning jazz pianist and singer Diane Schuur will be featured. Any remaining tickets are available at www.woodbineproductions.com or by calling 605-688-5188.

BROOKINGS – Brookings High School was put on lockdown Thursday morning following a false active-shooter call to the Brookings Police Department.

In mid-September, Custer County, Montana, had a positive case of bluetongue in a sheep flock.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court will hear arguments over a California animal cruelty law that could raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.

As Republicans and Democrats fight for control of Congress this fall, a growing number of conservative political action groups are targeting their efforts closer to home: at local school boards.

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The Little Leprechaun 4-H club welcomed little Karsyn Raelynn Langland, daughter of Geoffrey and Shantel Langland who was born Oct. 4 at the Brookings hospital.