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By Chad Coppess ((img|davis-4-29-24-1.jpg|width=400)) Owner Cinda Wilson refills coffee cups at the Solace Farm General Store. Just like the traffic flowing through on Highway 18, or the ...

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By Sentel Schreier ((img|bud-boudreau-4-22-24-2.jpg|width=759)) Bud Boudreau says every dog's mind is different, "and it takes patience to understand each one."   Bud Boudreau wakes at...

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By Bernie Hunhoff When milk prices soured in 2018, members of the Spink Hutterite Colony considered selling their dairy cows. Then someone offered a better idea. Why not start a cheese factory?...

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By Chuck Cecil ((img|homestake-pit-ponies-4-8-24-1.jpg|width=400)) "Old Smoky was hitched to a train of carts, each loaded with gold-laden ore headed to a Homestake elevator 400 feet underg...

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By Katie Hunhoff ((img|dandelions-4-1-24-1.jpg|width=400)) Marla Bull Bear helps manage summer camps on the Rosebud Reservation designed to connect teens with their Lakota roots. Dandelio...

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I’ve never outgrown my fascination for toys. A few years back a friend asked me to lead a workshop photographing toys. My first reaction was, “Who’s going to sign up for that?” He suggest...

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By Chad Coppess ((img|doland-3-18-24-1.jpg|width=759)) Doland, in Spink County, is home to 150 hearty souls.   Despite being the boyhood home of a vice president and hometown of twin O...

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By John Andrews ((img|mount-rushmore-humor-3-11-24-1.jpg|width=759)) Mount Rushmore is a point of pride, a vacation destination and a vehicle for the nation's humorists.   South Dakota...

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((img|MarApr24.jpg|width=250)) Silhouettes of Native Americans and bison greet travelers along Highway 34 southeast of Pierre. Created by Fred Urich and Kelly Hanson, they are an example of how...

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By Bernie Hunhoff ((img|rettedal-store-3-4-24-1.jpg|width=759)) Dean and Karen Rettedal's department store in Scotland features apparel for men, women and children, though Dean says women's...

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By John Andrews ((img|maple-syrup-2-19-24-4.jpg|width=400)) Professors and students at South Dakota State University in Brookings have tapped maple trees in McCrory Gardens since 2013. We...

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By John Andrews ((img|first-dakota-cavalry-ledger-2-26-24-1.jpg|width=400)) Sarah Hanson-Pareek, the Curator of Digital Projects and Photographs for the Archives and Special Collections at ...

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By Thomas M. Welch and Wayne G. Welch ((img|winter-potatoes-2-12-24-1.jpg|width=759)) Silcrete rocks, unique in North America, dot the pastures around Ludlow in Harding County.   When ...

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By Bernie Hunhoff ((img|respectful-shepherd-1-29-24-1.jpg|width=759)) Sheep deserve our respect, says Belle Fourche writer and rancher Sentel Schreier.   Sentel Schreier learned the us...

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By Christian Begeman When winter descends upon the Northern Plains, slumber seems to come easy. The busy-ness of life that abounded in the warmer seasons has either fled south or is hibernating...

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By John Andrews ((img|deecort-hammitt-1-8-24-1.jpg|width=759)) DeeCort Hammitt organized the Alcester Community Band in 1921 and directed it for 25 years. Hammitt, an Alcester banker and mu...

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By Laura Johnson Andrews Barb Feilmeier does some of her best dreaming in grocery store snack aisles, envisioning new ways to use cookies, crackers and other foods to decorate her intricate Chr...

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((img|JanFeb24.jpg|width=250)) Verl Heidecker of Belle Fourche likes to check cattle with his horse, Henry, but sometimes an airplane is more efficient in western South Dakota. Photo by Sentel...

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By John Andrews Jacob Fokken was 20 and drinking maybe one or two sodas every day. Soon, he began feeling that something wasn’t quite right with his health, so he decided to eliminate those s...

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By Chad Coppess ((img|white-owl-12-11-23-1.jpg|width=450)) Ann Shaw and her family have kept the spirit of White Owl alive by repurposing its former stagecoach stop into the White Owl Creek...

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