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• The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports (http://goo.gl/StPTD6 ) that Donna Donovan will step down at the end of March.
• She was named editor of The Daily Press and Observer-Dispatch in 1981 and went on to other top jobs with Gannett Co. Inc. before returning to Utica in 1991 as president and publisher.
• Donovan was also president and publisher at the Sioux Falls Argus Leader in South Dakota and Vermont's Burlington Free Press.
• In Utica, she guided the newspaper through its change of ownership from Gannett to GateHouse Media.
• Donovan said the city will remain her home and she'll spend more time with local volunteer organizations.
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ND, SD US Sens. ask Obama to aid in propane crisis
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The U.S. senators from the Dakotas are among the bipartisan group of senators who have sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to provide additional relief to people affected by the nationwide propane shortage and its price surge.
• The letter was sent to the White House on Friday. The senators say the shortage threatens the safety of families and the financial stability of farms and businesses.
• Propane is a crucial heating source in several states including the Dakotas. The propane drain has coincided with extreme cold temperatures this year.
• The propane crisis has been such, that authorities on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas are investigating whether a woman found dead on Tuesday in a mobile home with an empty propane tank died from the cold.
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Propane shortage fuels Dakotas reservation crisis
BLAKE NICHOLSON, Associated Press
• FORT YATES, N.D. (AP) -- A nationwide propane shortage is hitting an American Indian reservation that straddles the border of North and South Dakota particularly hard, causing tribal officials to warn that the thousands of low-income residents who live there are running out of ways to heat their ramshackle homes.
• The Standing Rock Reservation is on the wind-swept Northern Plains where there is little to block the icy gales that whip in from the northwest and create wind chills as low as 50 below. Many residents live in mobile homes, some with ill-fitting doors, others with boards tacked up where the windows should be, or deteriorating roofs that leak much-needed warmth.
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