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Webster Area Development Corporation was notified that 30 new positions are being created in the community. Dakota Tube, headquartered in Watertown, is hiring full-time general production labor for both first and second shifts. “Dakota Tube is at record-breaking levels, and the future looks solid straight through 2012 and well into 2013,” said Jack Steinbauer, owner. “These next couple of years ... Read More »

Moving to a rural place has positives and negatives, according to a recent Minnesota Public Radio story. Read More »

The U.S. Postal Service says it will keep open the rural post offices it proposed closing earlier this year as part of a money-saving effort, The Associated Press reports. No post offices would be closed under the new plan, but more than 13,000 rural mail facilities could be forced to reduce operation hours. Read More »

Orient is planning a big welcome for a 125th anniversary of the founding of the town, and a good portion of the town's 63 residents gathered to welcome you to their party. Read More »

A survey finds overwhelming community support for the Greater Britton Country Market, to begin in June of this year. Read More »

By Michael McCurry, South Dakota State Demographer   We’re all time travelers, traveling at the same speed-one hour per hour. We age at the same rate, and then look with surprise at an old person staring back from the mirror. Much of our region is, in a way, getting older as well. Because of the continued outmigration of young people, ... Read More »

Sometime next summer, when Webster residents are enjoying their new pool, they can do a little thank-you lap for all the community- and environment-minded people who set aside their recycling to help make it happen. Read More »

New research on the workings of the teenage brain suggests that in certain situations, teens are under intense pressure from their own brains to make unsafe decisions, and the best strategy for parents is keeping kids out of those situations altogether. Read More »

The 2011 results of the South Dakota Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which was given to students in 9-12 grades, were released in early April. Here are some of the findings: 27 percent of students were bullied on school property in the past 12 months 20 percent had been bullied electronically during the past 12 months 18 percent seriously considered attempting ... Read More »

By Bill Krikac   The way we teach young people to become responsible drivers has changed over the past quarter century—sometimes for the better, and sometimes not. When I started teaching drivers education in the 1970s, the class was taught within the school curriculum, usually to sophomores.  It was often on a weekly basis for a semester, garnering the needed ... Read More »