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Back in 2006 when Stacy Hadrick and husband Troy became rural advocates, Stacy thought blogging wouldn’t amount to much. Read More »

Whatever comes next for Nancy Porter, she knows God has got her back. She should have died a few years ago because of how sick she was, but she believes God kept her around for a purpose. Read More »

A year ago, Kenny Anderson bought an old International Power Binder because he didn’t want the tradition of the Andersons harvesting grain by hand to go away. Anderson's son and grandson, Bryan and Hayden Anderson, had never operated a vintage binder until this month when they and Kenny harvested a field of oats on the Anderson farm. Read More »

It's late in the middle of the night night and Joanne Herr can’t sleep. So, she goes to her living room to do the one thing she knows will help. She plays music. Read More »

There have been a lot of changes in the computer industry since 1963, when Jim Rood started his career as an engineer. “There’s been a lot of changes, but it’s been fun to watch (the industry grow),” he said Read More »

When he isn’t keeping busy as a county commissioner or working with his construction equipment, Waubay resident Gary Block is the travel agent for a semiload of “busy bees” who pollinate crops all over the country on a year-round basis. Read More »

For more than a decade a group of concerned Enemy Swim homeowners have battled to make the dream of a pristine northeast South Dakota lake come true. The Enemy Swim Sanitation District was formed over 10 years ago, and its first goal was to create a system that would collect and treat wastewater rather than see it seep into the lake. There were some bumps in the road along the way. Read More »

A delegation of 19 Langford Area residents appeared at the June 11 meeting of the Marshall County Commission because of concerns about the safety of the road that goes west out of Langford to Claremont. Read More »

“You have a lot of treasures in your county. I was very impressed with what I’ve seen visiting churches and buildings these last few weeks,” SD Humanities Council speaker Dr. Barbara Johnson stated. Dr. Johnson, of Aberdeen, spent the last three years looking at thousands of windows in South Dakota, making a report to be used for the Light of the Prairie special that was recently on South Dakota’s Public Broadcasting station. Read More »

The 14th annual Marshall County Relay For Life fell just short of another fundraising record – at least for now – but raised $84,484.88 for cancer research to boost its 14-year total to a whopping $938,379. Read More »