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riod. He ended with $13,900 on hand but also showed a $4,355 personal loan to his campaign.
• Lowe, 68, served as director of the state Wildland Fire Suppression Division from its creation in 2001 until his retirement in 2012. He now runs an art gallery in Rapid City and leads an emergency management consulting firm.
• Wismer, a 58-year-old accountant from Britton, took in about $18,000 in contributions and another $3,880 from in-state PACs. She spent $10,600, leaving nearly $13,000 on hand.
• Wismer runs a tax and bookkeeping business with her sister.
• South Dakota hasn't elected a Democrat as governor since the 1970 election.
• Independent Michael Myers took in $70 in contributions and made a personal $6,120 contribution to his campaign. He spent about $6,000 during the period.
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• HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) -- The Mammoth Site in southwest South Dakota has been granted $862,100 in federal funding to build a new learning center that will include two theaters.
• Officials with the site in Hot Springs plan to build a 5,800-square-foot addition that will feature a new entryway, gathering area, storage, and two 53-seat theaters.
• Business manager Joe Muller says the funding will give South Dakota a world-class working paleontological site and museum. About 100,000 people visit the site each year.
• An official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the funding during a site visit Thursday.
• At least 60 mammoths have been found in the area. The site has been under exploration since 1974, when a construction crew dug up mammoth bones on the south side of Hot Springs.
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