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Team Champs! (use team picture for this and also maybe the coaches on the podium... may want to crop it...FYI: Avon 1st, Platte 2nd, Wagner 3rd on the podium) For the fourth year in a row, the Avon Swim Team captured first place in team points at the Championship Swim Meet.

Psalm 146: 1-5 1) 'Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O our soul. 2) While I live I will praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. 3) Put not thy trust in princes, no in the son of man, in which there is no help.

The Charles-Mix County Historical Society has been busy as of late with some replacement and remodeling projects in the museum. After receiving a generous grant of $20,000 from the Wagner Community Foundation, the Charles-Mix County Historical Society was able to do some much-needed work.

Ashlyn Koupal attended the Class A State Track and Field Meet on May 23rd through 25th in Sioux Falls at the Howard Wood Field. This was her fourth time attending the state track meet to compete in the high jump event.

The HOSA International Leadership Conference was held June 26th-29th in Houston, TX. HOSA stands for Health Occupations Students of America.

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.” A song familiar to all of us. However, how familiar is the awareness of our body clues of feeling happy to all of us to truly “know it”?

I love fishing. There’s almost no better way to relax, get away from the hubbub of daily life, and connect with the natural beauty all around us. And they taste pretty, good, too! South Dakota is home to some of the best fishing in the country.

The Andes Central School District will be heading into the 2024-2025 school year with a new superintendent, Clint Nelson. Nelson officially began his duties as the Andes Central superintendent on July 1st. This is not Nelson’s first position as a superintendent.

The Lake Andes Food and Wellness Council has been a part of the Lake Andes community since 2015. The Food and Wellness Council was created as part of a South Dakota State University (SDSU) grant that chose three communities (DeSmet, Lower Brule and Lake Andes) to form Well Connected Communities.

Six Wagner students along with 14 teachers from across SD and ND participated in the 2024 Ocean Dakotas Institute along the New England Atlantic Coast in June.