The former mayor is best known for guiding Rapid through its recovery during arguably its darkest moment, the 1972 Flood.
RAPID CITY, SD (KELO) — Former Rapid City mayor Don Barnett is being praised for his leadership during the worst natural ...
Rapid City, S.D. (KELO) — 53 years ago, on June 9th and 10th, the Rapid City tragedy that was the 1972 Flood destroyed portions of the city along Rapid Creek. Thousands of people were injured, and ...
Barnett served as mayor from 1971 to 1975 and was just 28 years old when he was elected, making him the youngest mayor in ...
Weary and worried people turned to the medium of the familiar for help on June 9, 1972. Robb DeWall, a Rapid City native and broadcast newsman, said that's why, even decades later, people remembered ...
The recent Guadalupe floods in Texas brought back horrible memories of the June 1972 Rapid City, South Dakota, flood, which took the lives of 238 people. I am incensed that news organizations did not ...
She came to Rapid City on a temporary basis after the disastrous June 9, 1972, flash flood; then was asked to come back on a more permanent basis. That permanency expanded to 30 years before her ...