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PIERRE — Growing up in the 1960s, one of Joe Graves’ best childhood moments was his mother reading to him at bedtime.

The literacy initiative is based on research collectively called the Science of Reading and includes an emphasis on phonics, a method of teaching reading by correlating sounds with letters.

New social studies standards means a new direction in that subject for every para, teacher, and administrator in the state. With the two-year implementation process under way, every school district in South Dakota is on the clock to prepare.

Last November, the SDHSAA board of directors officially adopted girls high school softball as a sanctioned sport in South Dakota, and then in January of this year, a decision was made to make it a spring sport. The Mt. Rushmore state was the last state in the nation to sanction high school girls softball. In its inaugural season, Tea Area High School’s softball team claimed State A runner-up honors at the first-ever sanctioned State A Tournament held in Aberdeen June 1-3. The Titans began their

ABERDEEN - No one could match West Central in the first season of Class A softball. The Trojans completed a pe...