• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- There will be more on tap than just a football game when North Dakota State University takes on the University of South Dakota at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls later this month.
• The City Council has approved a special one-day liquor license for the facility that belongs to the Sioux Falls School District and typically is dry.
• The USD campus is in Vermillion. The Oct. 20 game is being played in Sioux Falls in an attempt to increase the school's presence in South Dakota's largest city.
• Sioux Falls Sports Authority Director Mike Sullivan tells KELO-TV that allowing alcohol sales at the game will increase revenue and help bring in more events in the future.
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• BRITTON, S.D. (AP) -- The governor's Capital For a Day program heads to Britton on Wednesday.
• The festivities begin with a coffee hour with Gov. Dennis Daugaard, a Main Street walk, tours and meetings around town.
• Residents also are encouraged to attend an afternoon roundtable meeting in the gym from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. for a discussion on financing to renovate the town sewer system.
• First Lady Linda Daugaard will visit elementary school classes to read to continue her reading initiative.
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• PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- A nonprofit organization on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has received a $70,000 grant to improve access to healthy food for Oglala Sioux tribal members.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that they have awarded the grant to Lakota Funds. The money will go toward developing a mobile farmers market and promotional campaign to help farmers on the reservation. The hope is that it will increase direct producer-to-consumer sales on Pine Ridge.
• The Pine Ridge reservation is considered a food desert, meaning there is little

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