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BROOKINGS — The Big Sioux River can be pernicious at times, especially during the spring snowmelt and heavy rain events, but an ongoing effort to alleviate some of those woes raised more questions and concerns than answers at a meeting this week in Brookings.

Special education students at Mickelson Middle School have new opportunities to grow thanks to the new life skills lab.

City Council OKs support resolution  By Mondell Keck | The Brookings Register BROOKINGS — Preliminary planning is underway for a new, four-story 132-unit apartment complex in Brookings on the southeast corner of the intersection of 20th Street South and 22nd Avenue South.  The proposed project, being spearheaded by Mills Development Corp., received backing from the Brookings City Council at its Jan. 27 meeting in the form…

By Mondell Keck | The Brookings Register  BROOKINGS — Fostering trust, building transparency and having an open-door policy are key tenets for Deputy Police Chief Ryan Baranyos, who’s the newest law enforcement leader in Brookings.  “We are partners. It’s not an us-versus-them. It’s a partnership between us and the community,” he told The Brookings Register in an interview.  Baranyos, who started Sept. 29, has spent the last few months familiarizing himself…

By Mondell Keck | The Brookings Register BROOKINGS — Two men are facing allegations of animal cruelty following their arrests on Feb. 1 in Brookings.  Billy Bamsey, 49, and Tyshawn Mott, 19, both of Brookings, have each been charged with three counts of cruelty to animals, a Class 6 felony punishable by up to two years in state prison and/or a $4,000 fine. They’re also facing charges…

BROOKINGS – About this time each year when many non-snowbirding Brookings residents have had their fill of winter woes, there come along annual events that let them know that spring and summer will return: One of those is the Brookings Regional Builders Association Home & Outdoor Show at the Dacotah Bank Center.