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One of the hardest things about planning a new house or a remodeling job is visualizing what it will look like in the end. That’s where BDA Home Designs and Brock Abeln can help. Abeln started his new company a year ago, but has long had an interest in the building trade. He worked with Dick Seurer while growing up and took classes with Don Donley in high school. At one time he had aspirations of attending college to be an architect. All that changed the summer of 2003 when an accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. Read More »

Groton has been battling abuse of the rubble site for the past several years. Each year the city gets inspected by the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources; this past year, it barely passed its inspection. Read More »

Day County is no stranger to the epidemic sweeping through the Midwest, known as Rural Flight. The county has consistently lost population for the past 90 years. But according to a 2011 estimate, the area is looking at its first increase in population since 1920. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2011 population estimates Webster and Day County have increased half a percent since the 2010 national census. Read More »

Shrinking population is just one of many factors that are coming into play for the struggles of rural area churches. In addition to a smaller populace, roads, travel conditions and church attendance becoming less and less of a priority for many, rural churches are especially feeling the pinch. Read More »

A few months back, the Director of Nursing at the Faulkton Area Medical Center and the director of the Faulk County Ambulance Service, Tom Hericks, began a program to get EMT certification courses available to be taken over the internet. Read More »

Three businesses in Willow Lake have been awarded low-interest loans from a new Business Development Fund created by Willow Lake Area Advancement. Gunners Back When, The Rusty Nail and Tony’s Electric have each been awarded $3,000 under the program designed to assist new or expanding businesses in southern Clark County. Read More »

Is there a better way to celebrate FFA Week than to prepare 35,640 meals for the needy? The Willow Lake High School auditorium was the site last Thursday morning as 55 Willow Lake FFA members, FFA state officers and a FFA national officer, along with community members, packed all these meals for Kids Against Hunger. Read More »

A decade-old dispute that centers on whether sportsmen should have access to flooded private land was the center of discussion at a legislative cracker barrel held at the Fun After Fifty Senior Center in Britton on Feb. 23. District 1 Senator Jason Frerichs and Representative Dennis Feickert discussed the “non-meandering water” bill that was introduced this year, and several area residents in attendance offered opinions on the issue. Read More »

One hundred fifty to one hundred seventy five miles of transmission line is being planned somewhere in the Dakotas. The Big Stone South to Ellendale route is in the running as an option. A public hearing was held Monday at the Groton High School gym as members from Otter Tail Electric and Montana Dakota Utilities, the owners of the project, were on hand to visit with landowners. Read More »

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs can offer a wide variety of benefits to consumers, says Chris Zdorovtsov,SDSU Extension Community Development Field Specialist. Read More »