According to Mitchell Area Safehouse officials’ letter to the city, the new building would allow its clients to have more space to social distance and quarantine as the COVID-19 pandemic still looms.
Sheriff enters retirement after 25 years in law enforcement Written By: Erik Kaufman | ×
Steve Brink, sheriff of Davison County, officially retired from his position Friday afternoon after 25 years in law enforcement. His colleagues presented him with a framed reminder of his time in service with the Davison County Sheriff s Office. (Erik Kaufman / Republic)
A hush fell over the crowd of people gathered in the second-floor courtroom at the Davison County Public Safety Building Friday afternoon.
Many of those in attendance were dressed in the uniform of sheriff’s offices from surrounding counties, the South Dakota Highway Patrol and the Mitchell Police Division. Others, including Davison County employees, were dressed in casual attire. But they were all there to celebrate the career of Steve Brink, who had served as Davison County sheriff for the last eight years.
A continuing series on the 100th anniversary of the current Corn Palace in Mitchell Written By: Marcus Traxler | ×
The Mitchell Republic commemorates the 100th anniversary of the modern Corn Palace in 2021. (Mindy Wirtzfeld / Forum Design Center)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the current Corn Palace building, which opened in 1921.
Damaged by economic turmoil, low commodity prices, drought and dust storms, the Great Depression impacted Mitchell and South Dakota far and wide in the 1930s.
That included the Corn Palace Festival, which by that point was becoming a 40-year tradition. The insight of that could be seen in a 1933 first-person submission to The Daily Republic from Wallace MacLean, who was the chairman of the Corn Palace Entertainment Committee that year.
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