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drinking water and wastewater treatment and to protect the environment.
• Grants make up about a quarter of the fund. Sioux Falls will receive $10,000 for recycling in city parks. Clark will get $1 million for a wastewater treatment facility.
• And the Tripp County Water Users District will get an $11.75 million loan for improvements and expansion.
• Some projects will receive loans and grants. The board made 25 awards.
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SD Governor signs last bills of session into law
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed the last 22 bills of the session.
• One new law will treat e-cigarettes as a regulated tobacco product, prohibiting sale to minors. E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that create nicotine vapor and resemble traditional cigarettes.
• Two other measures signed Friday establish studies. One is on tribal economic development and the others is on autism services and insurance coverage.
• Daugaard also authorized funding for a new swine facility at South Dakota State University and altered the funding for a veteran's home in Hot Springs.
• Another law changes the funding formula for the Building South Dakota Fund, which supports economic development initiatives.
• Daugaard only vetoed one measure earlier this session, which leaves legislators with little to do on Monday, the last day of the 2014 session.
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SD Historical Society gets big baseball donation
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- A South Dakota native has donated his extensive collection of Northern League baseball memorabilia to the State Historical Society, which plans to feature it prominently in an exhibit opening in the fall.
• Paul Gertsen, who was raised in Aberdeen and graduated from high school in Huron, has worked for both the St. Paul Saints and the Minnesota Moose and currently works for the city of St. Paul, Minn.
• "I started collecting baseball cards in 1971, the same year I saw my first Aberdeen Pheasants games," he said. "I have collected baseball memorabilia since that time, and started to build my Northern League collection -- slowly but surely -- in 1983. I wanted to donate to an institution that would preserve the intact nature of the collection, and make it available for display and research."
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