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• Campaign rules say a person or organization can donate no more than $1,000 in an election year to a judicial candidate. A candidate had asked whether that limit applied to members of a judicial candidate's family.
• The South Dakota Special Committee on Judicial Campaign Intervention says there's no exception for family members, so they can donate only $1,000.
• But the committee says candidates can donate more than $1,000 to their own campaigns.
• The committee did not say who had requested the advisory option.
• The committee is appointed by the South Dakota Supreme Court to issue advisory opinions and respond to complaints regarding judicial campaign activities.
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Museum of Geology reopening Wednesday
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- The Museum of Geology at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology is reopening on Wednesday.
• The museum on the third floor of the O'Harra Building has been closed during a month-long ceiling renovation of the main exhibit hall. It boasts an extensive collections of fossil and mineral specimens from South Dakota and throughout the world.
• The museum will host a reopening event from on Saturday featuring a rock and fossil ID table, and residents are invited to bring their backyard treasures to be identified by Mines geology students.
• Normal business hours during the winter are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is free.
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Lawrence County set for its beetle war
TOM GRIFFITH, Rapid City Journal
• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- Overhead, soaring above the crowns of ponderosa pines and creek-carved canyons is his aerial support, securing time-sensitive imagery marking the progress of his troops.
• On the ground, spotters and sawyers weave beneath a browning canopy, crossing streams and climbing mountains, all to gain higher ground.
• They are on a mission. And the enemy is a quarter-inch tall.
• As commander, Heck leads as many as 100 troops per day in his yearslong battle against the mountain pine beetle, a diminutive enemy of voracious appetite that has invaded wildlands from British Columbia to Mexico. Closer to Heck's Black Hills backyard, the tiny insects have scarred tens of thousands of trees and killed millions more.
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