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Thursday morning rain reports

Thanks to everyone below who called in rain reports this morning:

Jason Bartels at Banner Township received .80

Dennis Hanson at Carlock reported .97

Monte Mayes in Ideal received .75

Donna Howland in Winner received .20

Delbert Klein, East of Burke, received .25

Pete Haukaas, Southeast of Okreek, reported .21

Lynne Simkins in Winner received .52

Marvin Smith in Gregory reported an inch 10

Elaine Larson in Chamberlain reported .30

Brian Hofeldt in Milboro received .20

Stan Bicek, 10 miles south of Colome, reported .35

Vivian Sweeney, 16 miles northwest of Bassett, reported an inch 20

Greg Assman, 5 miles west of Winner, reported .16

Hay Daze coming up in Platte

The Platte Area Chamber of Commerce has Hay Daze coming up on September 30th! There will be a 5k run and walk at 8:30am, a co-ed softball tournament at 9am, farmers market 9-1, car show and shine from 10-2, chili cook-off at 11:30am, and much more happening! Contact the Chamber for a complete schedule for the day.

Power outage Tuesday evening

Earlier this evening at approximately 5:15pm several communities in Tripp County lost power.  There was a brief outage in the City of Winner.  According to a recorded message at Rosebud Electric, some of the communities affected were Colome, Ideal, Millboro, Witten and Hamill.  Several of the areas affected had power restored in approximately an hour and 10 minutes.  There appears to have been a fire at the substation south of Winner.