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08-05-2025
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New arboretum upgrades
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Visitors to the Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum in Sioux Falls will notice some new additions this spring and summer. A newly installed pedestrian bridge is now open to foot traffic. And that's not all. Recent rain has greened up the acres of vegetation at the Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum. 'I absolutely love this place. I feel at home here. In touch with nature,' Minnehaha Master Gardener Jerry Mills said. Deuel County could be multi-billion data center site Minnehaha Master Gardener Jerry Mills is tending to the vegetables growing in the arboretum's teaching garden. 'We've got varieties of asparagus coming up right now. The rhubarb is up. The strawberries are popping and it won't be long, we'll be having first berries,' Mills said. But plants aren't all that's sprouting up at the arboretum. 'This is a major feature of our lower-level area trail system. It gets a lot of use,' Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum Executive Director Mike Cooper said. The city has installed a brand new pedestrian bridge that replaced the one that spanned the main avenue through the old quarry town of East Sioux Falls. That bridge was demolished last fall. Crews installed a rustic replacement made of metal and wood. 'And one of the other additions that we're working on is trying to get funding so we can add quartzite rock to the concrete abutments to help it look more historic like the original bridge was,' Cooper said. The new bridge is a gateway to the arboretum's trail system, which includes a newly developed section called the Woodland Trail; a winding pathway with a quartzite rock surface lining the hillside. 'It was a bit of a challenge to come up with a design that wasn't super steep,' Cooper said. PERRY: That's why it's so winding? 'Winding back and forth,' Cooper said. On Arbor Day, students from Rosa Parks Elementary came out here to plant ten new trees along the trail to kind of put the 'wood' in Woodland Trail. 'The city forestry department has been taking out some of the green ash trees because of the ash borer invasion. So, this is a nice way to get replacement trees planted that really fit in with this native environment of this area, the way it used to look,' Cooper said. Visitors can become amateur arborists by visiting the Tree Education Garden which contains the Mayor's Grove. 'And when you flip up, it shows you information about the tree,' Cooper said. 'It's an education thing for kids, adults, whoever to kind of walk around and learn more about trees, which is what the arboretum is all about,' Cooper said. Plants are also emerging, right on cue. 'The last couple of weeks, we've had some cooler weather, our tulip bulbs are starting to pop out, so things are greening up. And we'll be putting in more plants here in the next few weeks, like annuals in the formal gardens area,' Cooper said. The site of a former ghost town is coming alive; revealing the splendor of nature in the backyard of Sioux Falls. 'Every improvement out here just adds more attraction to the public. More opportunity to get out in nature and see the trees, the grass, the wildlife, in some cases. It's a beautiful place,' Mills said. The Minnehaha Master Gardeners have begun weekly garden tours at the arboretum. They take place every Tuesday at 7 p.m. through October. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to
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19-03-2025
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Names of San Angelo crash victims released
Two men who died within days of each other after crashes in San Angelo have been identified, and police suspect one driver suffered a medical incident before his wreck. Jerry Mills, 77, of San Angelo was driving a red 2020 Yamaha moped north in the 500 block of North Bryant Boulevard about 9:04 p.m. March 7 when he wrecked, according to a crash report from the Texas Department of Transportation. Mills turned on his turn signal and appeared to have possibly attempted to turn right on West Sixth Street, a San Angelo police investigator said in the crash report. The moped hit a curb, and Mills was thrown off the vehicle. A city ambulance transported Mills to Shannon Medical Center, and he was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m. that day, according to the crash report and a media release from San Angelo police. He was not wearing a helmet. In a separate incident, Jackey Davis, 60, was driving a silver 2021 Dodge Ram 1500 at 10:58 a.m. March 9, according to a TXDOT crash report. Davis was driving south in the 400 block of U.S. Highway 87 South when his pickup left the road and ran into a concrete pillar for the crossing avenue overpass, according to the report and a media release. He had suffered a stroke about two weeks before the collision and was in an emergency department the night before, the investigator said in the report. The driver is believed to have experienced a medical incident before the crash. Davis was pronounced dead at the scene, the media release said. SAPD extended condolences to the families impacted by the crashes. More: Kemp honored with Goodfellow AFB award More: ID of San Angelo fire victim still pending Trish Choate is the executive editor for the Abilene Reporter-News, San Angelo Standard-Times and Wichita Falls Times Record News. Contact Trish with news tips at tchoate@ Read her recent work here. Her X handle is @Trishapedia. This article originally appeared on San Angelo Standard-Times: Names of San Angelo crash victims Jerry Mills, Jackey Davis released
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18-03-2025
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Names of San Angelo crash victims released
Two men who died within days of each other after crashes in San Angelo have been identified, and police suspect one driver suffered a medical incident before his wreck. Jerry Mills, 77, of San Angelo was driving a red 2020 Yamaha moped north in the 500 block of North Bryant Boulevard about 9:04 p.m. March 7 when he wrecked, according to a crash report from the Texas Department of Transportation. Mills turned on his turn signal and appeared to have possibly attempted to turn right on West Sixth Street, a San Angelo police investigator said in the crash report. The moped hit a curb, and Mills was thrown off the vehicle. A city ambulance transported Mills to Shannon Medical Center, and he was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m. that day, according to the crash report and a media release from San Angelo police. He was not wearing a helmet. In a separate incident, Jackey Davis, 60, was driving a silver 2021 Dodge Ram 1500 at 10:58 a.m. March 9, according to a TXDOT crash report. Davis was driving south in the 400 block of U.S. Highway 87 South when his pickup left the road and ran into a concrete pillar for the crossing avenue overpass, according to the report and a media release. He had suffered a stroke about two weeks before the collision and was in an emergency department the night before, the investigator said in the report. The driver is believed to have experienced a medical incident before the crash. Davis was pronounced dead at the scene, the media release said. SAPD extended condolences to the families impacted by the crashes. More: Kemp honored with Goodfellow AFB award More: ID of San Angelo fire victim still pending Trish Choate is the executive editor for the Abilene Reporter-News, San Angelo Standard-Times and Wichita Falls Times Record News. Contact Trish with news tips at tchoate@ Read her recent work here. Her X handle is @Trishapedia. This article originally appeared on San Angelo Standard-Times: Names of San Angelo crash victims Jerry Mills, Jackey Davis released
