A sad postscript to our Monday discussion of rural population drain and economic development: Gale Pifer reports that Chester Hardware has closed. Owner Denny Benson, grandson of Chester Hardware founder Emil Benson, says he loved the work and the interaction…
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Allen Unruh thinks the Tea "Party" had a "great victory" in Tuesday's South Dakota GOP primary. He's wrong about any conservo-fundie progress on more than one level... ...but rather than beat Allen up, I'd like to invite him and my…
Linda Krsnak is a fourth-generation Lake County farmer. She and her husband Jimmy run Linda's Garden, an honest-to-goodness family farm, not an ethanol factory, producing real food that people right here in South Dakota eat. The Krsnaks raise 300 varieties…
On Monday, the Madison Central School Board exercised its first vote under a new law that gives local school districts a say in where neighboring school districts pick up open-enrolled students. Madison Central approved Chester's plan to pick up open-enrollers…