Lake County enjoyed a nice September employment boomlet. According to South Dakota Department of Labor statistics, Lake County added 210 jobs from August to September, for a total of 6420. With 170 new workers joining the active labor force of…
Posts tagged as “Spearfish”
I have now been to the top of all three "jewels" in the crown of "Queen City" Spearfish. First Lookout Mountain to the east last month, much closer to my front door than it was to Ezra Kind's before he…
The Black Hills Pioneer runs the following courtesy photo in last Friday's edition to promote the Bella Pregnancy Resource Center's 10th annual benefit Dessert Gala: Bruce Byrum and his bank staff must like ice cream more than I do. $40…
Even if you don't like pizza, you've got to like the view from Dough Trader Pizza: On one of our innumerable strolls and rolls around our new fair city, my wife and I noticed a big "PIZZA" sign off Jackson…
In June 2009, I expressed the disgust I share with Belle Fourche dairy man John Habeck about how the state, the banks, and the dairy industry have left small dairies for dead. Industry advocates like Vale-gone-Faulkton rancher Troy Hadrick have…
While the Lake Area Improvement Corporation beats the drum on its tax increment finance district efforts, it assiduously avoids mentioning the continuing failure of its mostly dead Forward Madison initiative. According to the latest statistics from the South Dakota Department…
The 842nd Engineering Company of the South Dakota Army National Guard, based here in the Northern Black Hills, left yesterday for Fort Bliss, Texas, from where the 161 part-time soldiers will then head to Afghanistan for a year of building…
Ah, self-reliance... Black Hills Airport/Clyde Ice Field has received enough funding to complete a parallel taxiway that will stretch the full length of the runway. The airport was given a $3.15 million federal grant from the Federal Aviation Administration for…