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Tourists need to taste South Dakota's famous Chislic.

HENDERSONVILLE - Timothy Donald Weatherill, 64, died on March 17, 2022, after a brief but valiant battle with lung cancer. He leaves us with a legacy of dedicated love and enduring wonder.

There are things about South Dakota that even residents don't know.

Caravans in the mid-1920s were meant to build excitement for the Corn Palace Festival Written By: Marcus Traxler | × Billed as "The Wests Wonder Show," the 1926 Corn Palace Festival was advertised in a Sept. 25, 1926 edition of The Mitchell Evening Republican. The advertisement is part of the Carnegie Resource Centers collection on the Corn Palace. (Marcus Traxler / Republic) EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the current Corn...

A rural S.D. community ignored the virus for months. Then people started dying. Annie Gowen Maskless residents walk past storefronts in Mitchell, S.D., on Nov. 22. A day later, the city council voted on a citywide mask mandate. (KC McGinnis for The Washington Post) MITCHELL, S.D. — A cold wind whipped through the prairie as they laid Buck Timmins to rest. Timmins, a longtime coach and referee, was not the first person in Mitchell, S.D., pop. 15,600, to die of the coronav...