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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 Primghar, Iowa, and received her GED in 1982 from NCC in Sheldon, Iowa. She made a career of working with p...

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 College's 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 / Republic) Mary Millican was trying to find her path in life after graduating from high school in Spri...

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 to explode to $6.73 billion by 2025. The commercial drone market, including ag usage, is expanded to...

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 Mitchell Republic of the COVID-19 vaccination shot he received Friday, March 5. Gary Van Roekel heads o...

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 with a net worth of more than $60 billion, has committed $4.15 billion in philanthropy, much of it dir...