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Restaurateur’s cookbook launches with favorite dishes

Printing and shipping delays meant a six-month wait for Laurel Lather’s autobiographical cookbook, but it finally has arrived. “Nostalgic Feast,” the first in what the noted Sioux Falls chef and restaurateur promises will be a series, will be available at a book launch Tuesday in the Harvester Building, where Lather once presided over The Market

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Single in Sioux Falls and looking to change that? They want to help

If online searching, swiping and potentially getting swindled have made you squeamish about using a dating app, well, there’s a solution for that. Or two. You could try a matchmaker, like April Davis, president of LUMA Luxury Matchmaking. Or join a group like Sioux Empire Singles, which offers events rather than one-on-one encounters. Its next

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Creativity in the kitchen leads to gluten-free, vegan dessert business

Maggy Pickner learned how to make luscious cookies, brownies and cakes in the kitchen of her aunt’s house in Chamberlain. She taught herself how to make those same luscious cookies, brownies and cakes in gluten-free and vegan versions after a medical diagnosis led her to eliminate grains and dairy from her diet. Soon after, she

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Group of friends turned restaurant owners fill gap in neighborhood dining

For years, Jason Walsh dreamed of owning a pub and restaurant. He envisioned himself seated at a comfortable table or on a stool at the bar, watching sporting events unfold on multiple TV sets. He never imagined he’d be standing at the entrance, taking customers’ names as they arrived, or darting over on his noon

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From Sioux Falls to Carnegie Hall, high school senior prepares to take the stage

According to Gavin Sturm, no beginning musician greets the fifth grade band director with the words “I want to play the euphonium.” Instead, the “honor” of hefting the tuba-like instrument goes to a student who doesn’t already have a strong preference for the clarinet or the cornet or the flute or the snare drum. And

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Help design the library of the future — and you might be surprised by what’s already offered

You can check out books for your kids through Siouxland Libraries. You can send a document to be printed via your cellphone to the branch libraries in Sioux Falls and Brandon and pick it up there. Your book club can choose its selection for September and reserve up to 12 kits containing not only the

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