News for 3-20-2025 (e-edition)

This Week's Issue Download this week's issue Community Events Calendar A weekend robbery rocked a local business and a Friday fire took the efforts of local fire departments and farmers working together...

News for 3-13-2025 (e-edition)

This Week's Issue Download this week's issue Community Events Calendar Teacher Kim Macziewski (Mrs. Mac) was declared the 2024-25 Teacher of...

News for 3-6-2025 (e-edition)

This Week's Issue Download this week's issue Community Events Calendar Former Garretson High School wrestler Doug Rinken was inducted into the...

News for 2-27-2025 (e-edition)

This Week's Issue Download this week's issue Community Events Calendar Congratulations to the GHS Band, which played for the first time...

News for 2-20-2025 (e-edition)

This Week's Issue Download this week's issue Community Events Calendar Congratulations to Dan Paulson on his SD Specialty Producers recognition, and...
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COVID-19

Many South Dakota parents hesitant to get children vaccinated against COVID-19

Megan Raposa South Dakota News Watch Compared to other Great Plains states, South Dakota is off to a slow start in getting children ages 5-11 vaccinated...

Political partisanship driving vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota

Editor's Note 9-29-21: Due to a formatting error, a portion of the article was omitted from the printed issue. Due to this, we have...

COVID-19 numbers are back on the rise!

On Tuesday, the South Dakota Department of Health announced 720 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 65 probable cases. This was in addition to the...

No COVID protocols for high school sports this fall

By Dana Hess For the S.D. Newspaper Association PIERRE — The pandemic-inspired safety protocols that high school athletes needed to adhere to last year will not...

Editorial: Balancing public health and individual liberties

To the editor: Protection of individual freedom or liberties is among the essential elements of our democracy. The most important of these liberties are enumerated...

School to start as normal on Aug. 19, though Delta variant of the Coronavirus is on the rise

The Garretson School District will be starting classes on Thursday, August 19, with an in-person option only. During the 2020-21 school year, several changes were...

COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is strong among South Dakota youths

Danielle Ferguson, South Dakota News Watch Healthcare professionals say vaccinating young people against COVID-19 this summer is critical to reaching herd immunity against the virus and...

CDC COVID-19 Study Shows mRNA Vaccines Reduce Risk of Infection by 91 Percent for Fully Vaccinated People

Vaccination Makes Illness Milder, Shorter for the Few Vaccinated People Who Do Get COVID-19 A new CDC study finds the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines authorized by...

Mask resolution repealed for City of Garretson

At the May 3, 2021 meeting of the Garretson City Council, the Garretson mask resolution was repealed. On November 9, 2020, as the pandemic reached...

Vaccine hesitancy in South Dakota could prolong pandemic and delay a return to normal

Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch Medical experts in South Dakota and across the country are concerned that reluctance among some people to get vaccinated against...

Health Systems, Department of Health Urge COVID Vaccination

            SIOUX FALLS, S.D.— Today in a united front, Avera Health, Monument Health and Sanford Health systems joined with the South Dakota Department of Health...

War on COVID-19 enters final battles, stay vigilant

The light at the end of the tunnel has been getting larger, with vaccinations picking up the pace and things beginning to return to...

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