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• Class 9B
• Rank-School FPV Rcd TP Pvs
• 1. Avon (7) 8-0 43 1
• 2. Hamlin (2) 7-0 37 2
• 3. Dell Rapids St. Mary - 7-1 21 3
• 4. Wall - 8-0 20 4
• 5. Eureka-Bowdle - 6-2 6 NR
• Others receiving votes: Kadoka (7-1), Harding County (6-2), Canistota (4-4), Faulkton (6-2, was fifth last week), Faith (7-1).
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SD recruits companies that make medical devices

• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota economic development officials are attending an event in Minneapolis to recruit companies that make medical devices.
• Representatives of five South Dakota communities are joining the state Governor's Office of Economic Development at the Medical Design and Manufacturing Exposition on Tuesday and Wednesday.
• State Economic Development Commissioner J. Pat Costello says South Dakota can offer medical device companies a productive workforce and a good business and tax climate.
• Representatives from Aberdeen, Mitchell, Yankton, Sioux Falls and Vermillion will attend the event to meet with out-of-state companies that might expand or relocate their operations to South Dakota.
• South Dakota already has 25 businesses that are engaged in making medical devices and equipment. Those companies employ more than 26 percent of the state's workforce in bioscience.
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Yankton hosts first events to mark SD statehood

• YANKTON, S.D. (AP) -- Yankton was the capital of Dakota Territory and will host the first events tied to South Dakota's 125th anniversary of statehood in 2014.
• The free activities planned for Saturday include a walking tour of historic sites, a social hour with the governor, lieutenant governor and their wives and a statehood ball at which people are encouraged to wear clothing from the period.
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