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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 West's 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 Center's 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 Palace building, which opened in 1921. Interest in the Corn Palace Festival in the 1920s was hel...

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 coronavirus. He was not even the first that week. As the funeral director tucked blankets over the knees...