It's up to voters in Pollock to decide whether its school should consolidate with Mobridge. If approved, the Pollock school building would keep its K-12 students the first year. After that, the school would stay open for elementary school students as there’s six of them. The older students would go to Mobridge. The Pollock School District has had to be efficient over the years. "I teach everything from normal art classes to junior high exploratory to video editing, desktop publishing, computer applications and supervised distance learning classes," Waynette Geigle said. So in her 16 years of teaching in Pollock, Geigle has seen many students come through her class year after year, every year, K-12. "I know if they have reading problems or certain educational challenges and so I can devise my teaching to meet those needs," Geigle said. But now that total enrolment numbers have dropped to almost 50, the money coming in isn't enough to keep up. "As far as a budget is concerned for next year, we don't feel we can meet a budget so we couldn't operate on our own for another year," school CEO Wayne Hanson said. So, student now have to wait for voters to decide where they'll go to school and their teachers will work out their futures after that. "It kind of depends what that teaching assignment would be but I would like to, yes, continue teaching in the area," Geigle said. The one thing known for certain: the current Pollock school district won't be around much longer, efficient or not. People will vote on the issue February 26.

late night television

With most hit scripted series in reruns and “American Idol" still in the semifinals, late-night television has received more buzz than usual over the past two months. First there was the curiosity over the writer-less return of all but two late-night talkers, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson. Then came Jon Stewart's Oscar hosting gig, Jimmy Kimmel's viral video standoff with girlfriend Sarah Silverman (“I'm F*%^ing Matt Damon") and, most recently, rumors that Jay Leno could be headed to Fox, ABC or syndication when his contract with NBC runs out next year. All the talk may be fueling increased viewership among young people. Although household ratings for most late-night television shows have remained about even to prestrike levels following a brief bump when they returned from a two-month hiatus in January, late-night TV usage among adults 18-34 has actually risen.

Close call at Steamboat airport

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs airport officials say a United Express flight aborted a landing attempt on Saturday after the pilots spotted a small plane on their runway.

A few thoughts in the aftermath of that Syracuse University basketball ...

With the exception of a single clipped response, he looked reporters in the eye and spoke in complete and expansive sentences, painful as that might have been. And there was no macho nonsense about him. No bravado. No posturing. Boeheim searched me out one day before the season began and predicted that I'd really like Jonny Flynn, and he was right.

As for Boeheim, I'll grant him his despair and/or anger. But he's the head coach, the figurehead, the spokesman. And he's been on the job for 32 seasons now. So, he decorated himself in little glory by refusing to field any questions after the game he called the "most disappointing" of his career had ended. We all slip here and there, I know. And Boeheim slipped on Saturday. He had a duty to speak on behalf of his program and he didn't, and it made for bad form.

Teen cyclist hit by bus had big dreams

Austin Miller's family gathered around a computer to watch one of the early works of the budding 15 year old filmmaker. "He wrote it, shot it, directed it, did all the editing," said his mother, Stephanie Miller. "He was unbelievably creative."