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Governor to speak at wind company announcement
• BRANDON, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard is scheduled to speak in Brandon Tuesday morning at an announcement from Canada-based wind tower manufacturer Marmen Inc. • The company earlier this year said that it plans to hire 200 people at a 150,000 square-foot plant in Brandon originally built by a wind tower manufacturing firm that never ended up using it. Marmen says it will be the company's first U.S. facility. • The Brandon building sits on 41 acres in the Corson Development Park on the north side of Interstate 90. It was built in 2010 for Tower Tech Systems, a division of Broadwind Energy, but operations were put on hold because the company could not secure enough contracts. • The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. at the golf course clubhouse. •
Crazy Horse Volksmarch set for this weekend
• CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) -- This year's Crazy Horse Volksmarch is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday at the huge mountain carving. • This is the 28th year for the hike. • The 6.2-mile round trip hike attracted more than 11,000 people last year. • The cost to participate is $3 and registration is not necessary.
More heavy rain inundates southeast South Dakota
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- More overnight thunderstorms brought heavy rain to Sioux Falls and other areas of southeastern South Dakota, inundating an area already dealing with flash flooding. • The Sioux Falls airport received 1.25 inches of rain by Monday morning, but gauges on the city's outskirts reported amounts as high as 2.8 inches, said Mike Gillispie, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls. • The heaviest amounts from Sunday evening and early Monday were reported to the south between Canton and Beresford and east to Sioux Center, Iowa, with totals ranging from 3 inches to more than 6 inches. Between 3 and 5 inches fell in parts of Sioux Falls the previous night. • Gillispie said the weather service hadn't received reports of homes being over (Continued on page 20)
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