Community Interviews

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

Brookings City Council Member Brianna Doran and City Public Information Officer Sherry Fuller Bordewyk discuss Flock camera oversight, a new E-bike ordinance, budget changes impacting Dacotah Bank Center and more during an October 14 interview with Brookings Radio News. — Brookings Radio News

Hunter Harvey of the Brookings Salvation Army discusses the upcoming “Share the Warmth” distribution of free winter clothes to local people in need during an October 12 interview with Brookings Radio News. Learn more about Share the Warmth at: https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/sd/brookings/7th-st/share-the-warmth/. — Brookings Radio News