Tag: South dakota
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Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun Will Not Seek Reelection in 2027
Rapid City SD – Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun announced Sunday evening that he will not run for another term in 2027, ending what will be a decade of service in city government when his current term concludes. Salamun made the announcement in a personal Facebook post. In a statement accompanying the post, he described…
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Rapid City’s September 15th Public Works Agenda Cheat Sheet
Rapid City SD – Ten items are on Rapid City’s Public Works Committee this week — nine of them routine enough to pass without a word of discussion, and one a developer’s second attempt to get out of building a city-standard road next to Sanford Health’s new Medical Mile campus. When: 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept.…
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You Don’t Look Sick – Suicide Prevention Awareness Month asks Rapid City to Notice. The Data Says We Still Aren’t.
Is this what a month of awareness is for — so society can peer into lives that never asked for the scrutiny? So more judgment gets placed on people who certainly didn’t ask for their diagnosis? Sadly, I don’t think much has changed over the years as far as stigma goes. It’s easy to fund…
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Settlement Filed in Tzadik Bankruptcy Sets Accelerated Sale Deadline for Hendry’s Farm, Ranch and LaCrosse Estates Apartments
Rapid City SD – A settlement agreement filed Sept. 11 in the Tzadik Sioux Falls Portfolio III bankruptcy case sets hard deadlines for the sale of three properties tied to Rapid City developer Adam Hendry — a South Dakota ranch, a Florida farm, and LaCrosse Estates Apartments, the 265-unit complex at 761 E. Anamosa St.…
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Rapid City Planning Commission Delays Vote on New Data Center Rules After Fractured Hearing
Rapid City SD – An ordinance rewriting how Rapid City regulates data centers — capping their water use, banning the largest of them outright, and imposing new noise and cooling standards — was supposed to get a recommendation from the Planning Commission on Sept. 10. Instead, after roughly an hour and a half of public…
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Hanover Drive Triplex Approved on 5-3 Vote after Contentious Planning Commission Hearing
Rapid City SD – A Rapid City Planning Commission meeting that opened with a routine consent calendar ended with commissioners defending themselves against members of the public who told them to shut up — and, in one case, a neighbor named Clayton Severson asked to leave the room by chair Erik Braun. The Sept. 10…
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The Sentinel’s Recap: Federal Mandates, Fiscal Shifts, and Growing Pains
Rapid City City Council Meeting – Sept. 8, 2026 Rapid City SD –Tuesday night’s City Council meeting highlighted the persistent tug-of-war between neighborhood transparency, fiscal management, and the looming threat of municipal liability. From contentious zoning amendments to shifting millions in management contracts, here is what happened on the dais. The Oxford House Dilemma: Neighborhoods…
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Creditor States that Adam Hendry Hid a $5.1 Million Debt as His Estate Pivots to Public Auction
Rapid City SD –Three filings in Adam Hendry’s personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy case, read together, sketch an estate running low on options: a creditor accusing Hendry of hiding a multimillion-dollar debt, a batch of properties sliding from private sale into public auction after missing their deadline, and a payment that moved from one Hendry-controlled entity…
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Also on the September 10th Rapid City Zoning/Planning Agenda: Variances, Right of Ways and Rezoning
Rapid City SD – The data center ordinance isn’t the only thing in front of Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission Thursday, September 10, at 7 a.m., City Council Meeting Room, 300 Sixth Street. Here’s the rest of it, in the order it appears on the agenda. Zoning Board of Adjustment Planning Commission –…
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Rapid City’s New Data Center Rules Go Before the Planning Commission Thursday Morning
Meeting starts at 7 a.m.; ordinance follows through on the Mayor’s July pledge that “no data center is worth our water. RAPID CITY, S.D. — An ordinance that would rewrite how the city treats data centers — capping their water use, banning the largest of them outright, and imposing new noise and cooling requirements —…