The Belle Fourche Development Corporation recently won one of the state's fourteen workforce development grants with an affordable-housing plan that mirrors one proposed on the Madville Times seven years ago. The Belle Fourche housing plan also reveals a fundamental market…
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We had some grim fun last fall discussing Belle Fourche's self-destructive attitude toward its Chamber of Commerce. In October, the city council manufactured concerns about financial transparency, threatened to kick the Chamber out of the Center of the Nation visitor…
So it was all personal. Back in October, the Belle Fourche City Council decided to kick the Chamber of Commerce out of the Center of the Nation Visitor Center that the Chamber pretty much built and ran for 20 years.…
If the Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce still plans to challenge the city's politically reeking ill treatment, it will do so without Teresa Schanzenbach. In what feels like a capitulation to political pressure, the Belle Fourche Chamber fired executive director…
Belle Fourche referendum update! The "fewer than 60" signatures that Belle Fourche Chamber exec Teresa Schwanzenbach told the press the Chamber would need to call a referendum on the city council's decision to kick the Chamber out of the city's…
The Black Hills Pioneer leads coverage of the Belle Fourche brouhaha with the headline that Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Otterman has resigned from the Chamber board. I've met Otterman; he's a smart, decent guy, and the Chamber will be…
With one of the higher cowboy-hat/belt-buckle concentrations in the state, Belle Fourche seems like a town that would go all out to support the ranchers and farmers that support its economy. But I could be wrong: Belle Fourche may dislike…
This morning's puzzler comes from Belle Fourche, where a fractured business community appears to be driving a wedge between the city council and the Chamber of Commerce. For 20 years, the Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce has managed the city's…