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• The last time South Dakota qualified for individual federal assistance was in 2011, after homes and businesses were damaged when the Missouri River flooded. This year's flooding was caused by prolonged heavy rains last month, particularly in the southwest.
• The town of Wessington Springs also was devastated by a June 18 tornado that damaged or destroyed dozens of buildings and displaced about 80 people.
• Donations continued to pour in three weeks after the storm, including more than 100 boxes of supplies collected at a distribution center at United Methodist Church. No more clothes are needed, though household supplies such as silverware, flashlights, laundry soap and kitchen bags were still needed, the Rev. Marvin Avery told The Daily Republic newspaper.
• Judy McPhail, whose family home was lost, visited the distribution center Wednesday.
• "This has been so helpful," she said, patting the piles of women's clothing. "I need work clothes. I feel like I tell people at work, 'You're probably getting sick of this outfit, but it's all I have.'"
• Residents of Wessington Springs and Canton, which was hit hard by flooding, can apply to the state's Housing Opportunity Fund for grants of up to $5,000.
• Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., on Friday said home and business owners in Minnehaha, Lincoln and Union counties can apply for low-interest disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration. Those counties are eligible because they are next to Iowa counties where a major disaster was declared.
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• SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) -- Posts marking the Great Western Cattle Trail have been put in the ground in the western South Dakota cities of Belle Fourche and Spearfish.
• The markers were dedicated in a ceremony during the Great Western Cattle Trail Association's recent annual meeting in Spearfish, the Black Hills Pioneer reported (http://bit.ly/1m0soJQ ).
• The 1,800-mile trail was started shortly after the Civil War when ranchers returned to their Texas homes to find their cattle herds neglected and grown to a size where pastures no longer provided enough feed. From 1866-1897, the cowboys pushed their herds north to Dodge City, Kansas, and then to several destinations in the High Plains.
• The association in 2003 launched a project to mark the trail with a cement post

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