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Palace City Profile: A billboard brought them to Mitchell
The billboard brought them to Mitchell, but it was the people they met that convinced them to live here.
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By Karen Whitney, Mitchell Regional Workforce Coordinator | 7:00 am, May 10, 2021 ×
Brian Lester and his wife Alahna Gross. (Courtesy photo)
Editor’s Note: Palace City Profiles is an ongoing series of community members’ stories, introducing us to our neighbors and the personalities that call Mitchell home. If you have suggestions for individuals or families with a great story, please contact Karen Whitney at 996-1140 or kwhitney@mitchellsd.com. Hey, can we stop? Brian Lester asked his wife Alahna Gross as they were traveling down I-90 on their way to visit Alahna s grandma.
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 of Timmins’s wife, Nanci, Pastor Rhonda Wellsandt-Zell told the small group of masked mourners that just as there had been seasons in the coach’s life basketball season, football season, volleyball season Mitchell was now enduring a phase of its own.