THOUGHT FOR TODAY Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. --- Albert Camus PIERRE GOVERNORS SPORTS ROUNDUP This week's schedules: --- FRIDAY Cross country: at Rapid City Central invitational. Football: at Yankton, 7 p.m. --- SATURDAY Girls tennis: home...

THOUGHT FOR TODAY "For it's a long, long time from May to December, but the days grow short when you reach September." --- Maxwell Anderson's lyrics of "September Song" PIERRE GOVERNORS SPORTS ROUNDUP Boys soccer: The Governors lost to Harrisburg, 2-1, as Rylan Derry...

THOUGHT FOR TODAY "I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne ZESTO SHERBET SCHEDULE Thursday: almond. Friday-Sunday: cherry cheesecake. Monday-Tuesday: cinnamon red. Wednesday-Thursday:...

AND SO IT BEGINS Every year I say this will definitely be the last year of The Midweek Update. Maybe this one will, considering that I'm 82 1/2 years old and there are selfish, uncaring, unvaccinated freedumb-lovers outside making life miserable for others and...

ELECTION UPDATE According to a story in the Rapid City Journal, U.S. Sen. John Thune will have at least two challengers in next June's Republican primary. We reported earlier this summer that one challenger would be Mark Mowry of Spearfish, and the Journal says he has...

THOUGHT FOR TODAY "What concerns me most is that the decisions are being made by politicians and not pediatricians." --- Dr. David Agus PIERRE GOVERNORS SPORTS ROUNDUP This week's schedule: --- THURSDAY Girls soccer: home vs. Sioux Falls Roosevelt, 4 p.m. Boys soccer:...

THOUGHT FOR TODAY "Individual commitment to a group effort---that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --- Vince Lombardi ZESTO SHERBET SCHEDULE Thursday: apricot. Friday-Sunday: huckleberry. Monday-Tuesday: blue mood....

THOUGHT FOR TODAY The first week of August is motionless and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no...

THOUGHT FOR TODAY "The less you respond to negativity, the more peaceful your life becomes." LEGION BASEBALL POSTSEASON SCHEDULE The winners of these best-2-of-3 series this weekend will qualify for the state tournament at Brandon next week: * #15 Aberdeen at #1 Sioux...

THOUGHT FOR TODAY "America is a tune. It must be sung together." --- Gerald Stanley Lee POST 8 BASEBALL UPDATE Summary of recent games: --- Sioux Falls Dakota Classic: * W Wayzata 19-5 * W Norfolk 6-4 * W Sioux Falls West 5-0 * L Jackson 4-3 (8) * L Shakopee 9-0 (5)...