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• FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) -- The community center in Flandreau has been renamed in honor of former South Dakota governor and U.S. Representative Bill Janklow.
• The re-naming became official during a dedication ceremony Friday morning. Janklow died in January 2012 after a months-long battle with brain cancer.
• Flandreau officials proposed a name change soon after, and chose Friday as the dedication date after consulting with Janklow's family. Janklow had a hand in other Flandreau centers as well; the city's aquatic center was funded in part by a grant approved by Janklow.
• Janklow was born in Chicago but moved to his mother's hometown of Flandreau when he was young.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Public Safety Secretary Trevor Jones has appointed a new director for the state Office of Emergency Medical Services.
• Marilyn Rutz, of Belle Fourche, has been working in the state EMS office as an emergency medical specialist since June 2010. She has been an emergency medical technician since 1999 and a paramedic since 2002.
• Rutz succeeds Danny Hayes, who retired this past June after nearly two decades with the agency.
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• ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- An early start to spring planting and a hot summer that pushed crops to maturity has led to an early row crop harvest in the Dakotas.
• "We should be finishing harvest in record time," South Dakota State University agronomy specialist Mark Rosenberg told the American News. "Instead of finishing by Thanksgiving, we will be done by Halloween."
• The latest statistics from the federal Agriculture Department show that the soybean harvest is more than three-fourths complete in both South Dakota and North Dakota, when typically only about one-fifth of the crop would be in the bin at this time of the year. About one-third of the corn crop in North Dakota and half of the corn in South Dakota have been harvested, at a time when the corn harvest typically is just getting under way.

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