Over the weekend, the Scholarship Yellow Medicine East Awards Banquet was held, honoring the hard work and achievements of our graduating seniors. This year, 28 Yellow Medicine East students who applied were awarded a combined total of over $89,000 in scholarships to support their post-secondary education.
We are excited to announce that the print edition of the Advocate Tribune is getting a brand-new look and feel this April, thanks to the latest advancements in digital printing. This transformation means sharper images, richer colors, and an even better reading experience – all while maintaining the quality community journalism you rely on every day.
It was a Mother’s Day for the record books on Sunday. We experienced record high temperatures that had been in the record books for 125 years that were shattered! Lots of low to mid 90s were found around the region.
Department of Public Transformation (DoPT) and The YES! House, a project of DoPT, are excited to host the fourth River Valley Ripple Artist-in-Residence Mike Gill!
On Sunday, May 11th, at 2:23 p.m., the Granite Falls Fire Department was dispatched for a brush fire in rural Granite Falls. The fire, near Highway 167 quickly grew, and a large number of agencies responded to requests for mutual aid, including helicopters.
It’s a landmark event when a business makes a bold expansion in a tiny town, as Meadowland is doing in Echo.
On May 11-17, the Yellow Medicine County Chemical Health Coalition will join communities across the country in celebrating the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Prevention Week 2025 to increase public awareness of, and action around, mental health and substance misuse disorders.
Visitors to the Granite Area Arts Council’s Riverside Gallery can now experience images of otherworldly realms thanks to the latest exhibit by artist Josh Batterson. His exhibit, now on display, invites viewers to explore a fusion of mythology, technology and ecological transformation through the lends of digital collage.
When I began working at Prairie Five in 2018, one of the first trainings I attended was for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP.) I was shocked to learn that our region had one of the largest discrepancies between the number of people who were eligible for SNAP and the number who were actually accessing and using it. There were thousands of dollars going unused each month and I thought a lot about what it would mean not just for individuals to have a little more wiggle room in their monthly food budgets but also to our local grocery stores to have those dollars being spent.
The Granite Falls Fire Department recently made a special delivery to the Yellow Medicine County Museum.