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Workforce shortage creates high demand for ag students

Workforce shortage creates high demand for ag students

New contract will cover district bus service for five years Written By: Erik Kaufman | × The Mitchell Board of Education returned to live meetings Monday evening when they met in regular session at the Mitchell Career & Technical Education Academy. Pictured are board members Kevin Kenkel, Neil Putnam, Deb Olson, Lacey Musick and Matt Christiansen. (Erik Kaufman / Republic) The Mitchell Board of Education on Monday approved a new five-year busing agreement with Foreman Sales & S...

5 hours ago in Local Photo: WNAX Graduates of South Dakota Technical Colleges are landing jobs and good paying ones. The Board of Technical Education got a report on placements and salaries at their meeting last week. Deputy Executive Director Scott DesLauriers says they tracked those who graduated in 2019 and 2020… DesLauriers says they figured an average starting pay for those graduates.. DesLauriers says they also found most graduates stay in their field of...

Technical college graduates in South Dakota land good jobs, good salaries Jerry Oster, WNAXMay 25, 2021Business SD Department of Technical Education PIERRE, SD – Graduates of South Dakota Technical Colleges are landing jobs and good paying ones. The Board of Technical Education got a report on placements and salaries at their meeting last week. Scott DesLauriers Deputy Executive Director Scott DesLauriers says they tracked those who graduated in 2019 and 2020.  “The last column reflects to...

Judy Ann Carpenter, 57 View Comments Judy Ann Carpenter, 57, of Sioux Falls, left this earthly world on Monday, May 3, 2021 at Ava’s House, Sioux Falls, SD after her courageous battle with cancer. Sioux Falls Memorial Service was held on Friday, May 7 at Miller Westside Chapel in Sioux Falls. Judy was born July 29, 1963, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, to Sylvester and Peggy (Crouch) Watts. She attended grade school in Harlem, Georgia. She completed her schooling through the 11th grade in Primgha...

Nevada native Millican said technical college route was right for her Written By: Erik Kaufman | × Mary Millican, a native of Spring Creek, Nevada, is set to graduate Friday from Mitchell Technical Colleges powerline construction and maintenance program. Millican found her way to MTC after stops at a four-year college and a community college, and said she greatly prefers her experience at the local technical school compared to her previous educational stops. (Erik Kaufman / Rep...

RantizoDrone We might not be driving Jetson-envisioned flying cars yet, but in the past five years unmanned aerial systems, or drones, have merged from futuristic novelties into farm equipment. This crop season will bring swarms of drones that spray and seed cover crops – with a future as limitless as the horizon.  In a report from the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees drone usage and regulations, the worldwide agricultural drone market in 2017 was valued at $990 and projected ...

Area residents line up for life-saving shots Written By: Erik Kaufman | × A vaccine clinic was held at the Avera Patient Financial Services building on Friday morning in Mitchell. (Matt Gade / Republic) It’s been a long, painful year of fighting COVID-19. But the all-important vaccinations administered at a clinic held recently by Avera Health in Mitchell were painless. “You wouldn’t know you had gotten (the shot) if they hadn’t told you,” Gary Van Roekel told the Mit...

Mitchell college among 384 organizations to receive part of $4 billion in funds Written By: Erik Kaufman | × Mitchell Technical College. Mitchell Technical College and Lake Area Technical College in Watertown are going to be beneficiaries of more than $4 billion of giving from philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott, it was announced Wednesday. The amount of the gift for the colleges was not stated in the announcement. Scott, who is deemed the richest woman in the world wi...