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Following the recent resignation of Mayor Alyssa Mathis, Wagner City Council President Brenda Jaton has stepped up to serve as Acting Mayor until the next election in 2026. Jaton was officially sworn in as mayor during the Wagner City Council meeting held Monday, November 4th.
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Mrs. Dawn Kitchenmaster teaches Kindergarten at Andes Central School. She grew up on a farm outside of Hawarden, Iowa. After graduating high school she attended college in Orange City, Iowa at Northwestern College. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and a Minor in Elementary Music.
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Mr. Cole Johnson is both a teacher and coach at Andes Central. He teaches Middle School Math and is the Head Coach for wrestling as well as the coach for the Junior High football team. Cole grew up on the out skirts of Sioux Falls surrounded by open land and corn fields before the area became too crowded amidst the house building boom. There he attended West Central School District until his family moved out to White Lake in 2006.
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of vision loss among adults over 65. This condition affects the back of the eye where light is processed by macula. The macula is the part of the retina providing sharp, detailed vision needed for reading, driving, and recognizing faces. Two categories of macular degeneration are “dry” and “wet”. This article will focus on dry macular degeneration and therapy options to help slow vision loss from it.
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President Jamie Soukup welcomed the Wagner Rotarians to a weekly meeting on Wednesday, November 5th which seemed much like an early fall meeting with the weather being sunny and warm! The harvest is almost completed with a huge pile of corn evidence of the weather the area experienced this past growing season.
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“Everything we saw and learned today - the bees depend on all of it. And we depend on them.” Missy Johnson, The Mindful Hive.
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The Avon Oral Interpretation Team achieved strong results at the district competition held Wednesday, November 5, earning multiple first-place finishes and advancing several entries to the regional contest.
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YES. Members of the United States Senate and House are still receiving paychecks during the government shutdown, though some lawmakers are looking to change that.
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