Community Interviews

Brookings County Commissioners Larry Jensen and Kelly VanderWal, and County Commission Department Director Stacy Steffensen discuss the PowerOn Midwest 765-kV line, repairs to the Brookings County Courthouse cupola, the continued burn ban and more in an October 21 interview with Brookings Radio News. — Brookings Radio News

Assistant Hobo Day Parade Pooba Claire Siverhus and Parade Community Entries Coordinator Sophia Niemeyer discuss Hobo Week at SDSU and this Saturday’s Hobo Day Parade during an October 20 interview with Brookings Radio News. More information on Hobo Day 2026 can be found at https://www.sdstate.edu/student-life/hobo-day or https://www.instagram.com/hoboday/ — Brookings Radio

Laura Ellsworth and Ashley Ragsdale discuss the 25th anniversary of the Prairie Doc television program during an October 19 interview with Brookings Radio News. — Brookings Radio News

Brookings School District Superintendent Summer Schultz discusses the Youth in Music Administrator of the Year Award, this month’s district BEST award (to the instructional assistants at the Mickelson Middle School “Hideout”), and Phase I architectural planning for changes at Brookings High School and the Career and Technical Education buildings during

South Dakota State University President Barry Dunn discusses Hobo Week 2026 during an October 16 interview with Brookings Radio News. A complete schedule of Hobo Week 2026 events is posted at: https://www.sdstate.edu/student-life/hobo-day. — Brookings Radio News

Organist and silent-film historian Ben Model discusses presentations October 16-17 at SDSU of the 1926 Buster Keaton film The General (accompanied by Model on pipe organ) during an interview with Brookings Radio News. Performances are: Friday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the