Over the past few years, the town of Ethan, S.D., has come together to build its future on preserving its past. The state’s oldest cheese factory stirred its final vat of curds in the community of 330 in the mid-1990s and sat quietly for about 20 years before the building was remodeled into Ethan’s first designated town hall. Read More »
After the Ethan town hall was completed, the Ethan Historical Society expressed an interest in occupying a portion of the building that incidentally was a huge part of the history of the community and the state. Read More »
The list of accomplishments that Faulkton can take pride in over the last few years would be impressive for a community of any size: A new hospital. A reinvigorated downtown business area. Revitalized infrastructure. Read More »
One journey took them to Pisek, a town of about 100 in northeastern North Dakota. They found their way to St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church, which was open to all comers. Read More »
Follow the numbers to go on a virtual visit of the school building in Guelph, N.D.—a place no longer filled with students, but still alive with history, creativity and community spirit. Read More »
This might look like a bowl of stew, but it’s actually a generous helping of social capital. Read More »
Like many rural communities, Arlington, S.D., is struggling to maintain an economic foothold in the Walmart and dot-com world. Recently, the town of about 900 showed it was willing to stake a claim to the future with a dynamic and proactive program of economic development. Read More »
More than 100 years ago, early settlers in Langford, S.D., had the foresight to develop a municipal power system that is paying dividends over a century later. Read More »
About 15 people gathered in Sisseton on Feb. 10 to talk about rural leadership: What’s happening, what’s possible, and what they can do about it. Here are some of the interesting ideas we heard during that gathering. Read More »
We approach each topic in the Prairie Idea Exchange project in four ways: 1) a gathering of economic development professionals; 2) reporting in Dakotafire magazine; 3) community input—online, on postcards, on our forum page (www.pie4.us), and in person at a Dakotafire Café event, 4) and with a final report in the magazine that reflects the feedback. Here’s what we learned on the topic of leadership. Read More »
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