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Art is one way to connect community members, as well as to connect a community’s history with its future. Read More »

Inspired by the difference a group of volunteer painters made on a home and a neighborhood through the Paint South Dakota program last summer, one community in the southeastern part of the state is working to create its own program, in order to more quickly spruce up the town. “It’s all about economic effect,” said Larry Johnke, a board member ... Read More »

This spring, seven homes will be built in a circle facing each other, re-creating a cultural and physical pattern of living in community that has until now been lost to generations of Lakota. As part of the larger Thunder Valley community being built by tribal members on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, these homes continue a masterpiece in development, community ... Read More »

This spring, students in a Lyons, Neb., government class learned an important government lesson: How to be good citizens. Read More »

On a Tuesday afternoon in July, when some of their colleagues were probably enjoying a deserved break from the intensity of the last school year, about 60 teachers were in Wolsey, S.D., working on plans for the next one. Read More »

The 2012 Census of Agriculture paints a rosy picture for the economics of agriculture in the Dakotafire region. Actually, the picture is beyond rosy. You could call it golden. But did that golden time spread through our communities? Read More »