As of Monday afternoon, April 13, there are two confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Sanborn County. This number will likely rise in the coming weeks, but as long as everyone follows the guidelines of the South Dakota State Department of Health (DOH) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), most cases should recover. Everyone must do their part in being smart and diligent with social distancing and self-isolation in order to keep the number from spiking too quickly or rising too fast. 

…Read on in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

For this year’s state legislative session, four students from Woonsocket High School and one from Sanborn Central attended the session as legislative pages. They all served as pages for the State Senate. 

The entire session spanned a period of nine weeks with legislators meeting for four days each week. Those weeks are broken up into five terms for the legislative pages to serve as volunteers for the legislators and the government offices and officials working for the state. 

…Read about their experiences and see photos of the pages in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!