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• Gov. Dennis Daugaard made the recommendation to create an ex-officio position on the board for the School of Mines president and the bill passed unanimously.
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Buckled interstate causes woes for motorists in SD
• TRENT, S.D. (AP) -- Hot weather caused the concrete to buckle on Interstate 29 in east central South Dakota, causing headaches for motorists returning home from Fourth of July activities.
• The Highway Patrol says about half a dozen vehicles suffered flat tires or damage to their undercarriages on Sunday before crews could fix the problem on the northbound lanes near the Trent exit.
• Officials with the patrol and local fire departments alerted motorists about the hazard while the work was done. Permanent repairs will be done later.
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Artist brings authenticity to Deadwood sign
ADAM HURLBURT, Black Hills Pioneer
An AP Member Exchange Feature by the Black Hills Pioneer.
• DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) -- Tim Peterson is what you might call an emissary of the old school.
• The Spearfish-based artist named his sign painting business the Flat Earth Art Company to reflect his disdain for technology. Sign painting is one of a thimbleful of America's classic trades that moved into the 21st century completely unchanged. But the roots to one of the standards in the traditional sign painter's repertoire digs back even deeper. In fact, it's stretched across millennia largely unaltered.
• "The Egyptians were famous for gold leaf gilding," Peterson said while applying 23-karat gold leaf to the visage of a large gold nugget relief-carved into one of Deadwood's six stone gateway signs. "All the icons you see in museums, those are all gilded with gold leaf. They weren't solid gold, but they were made structural objects covered in gold leaf, which is really thin. Three-millionths of an inch thick."
• In May the Deadwood City Commission hired Peterson to clean and hand paint the relief carvings on all six of Deadwood's stone gateway signs, and Peterson's nearly at the end of the project, the Black Hills Pioneer reported (http://bit.ly/1jHdB6W ). The carving on the gateway sign between Deadwood and Central City on U.S. Highway 85 features a stereotypically bearded prospector holding a pan with a large gold nugget in it. For Peterson, a simple coat of gold paint wouldn't do, it only made sense to gild the carved nugget in gold leaf.
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