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A pop-up grocery store will bring inexpensive products to the public while helping reduce waste in the local landfill. Fair Market, a reduced-price food store, and the Multi-Cultural Center at 515 N. Main Ave. are collaborating on the event, which could become a monthly offering. The first one is scheduled for 1 to 6 p.m. […]
Pop-up grocery store to bring affordable options to diverse community Read More »
When a dog leaves Amy Wickman’s grooming business, it has been trimmed, pedicured, bathed, styled again, fluffed and pampered. It also has been loved. Because Wickman and others who become groomers wouldn’t do it if they didn’t enjoy being around the animals who may come in their studios doubtful but leave immaculately coifed, prancing down
New, relocated pet parents cause surge in demand for dog grooming Read More »
Eleven months ago, when Steve Blumke and Lisa Esser served a burger to a first-time customer, they had no idea it would change their lives. The customer: Scott Blount, senior broker associate with Lloyd Cos. He had stopped by Papa Woody’s Wood Fired Pizza to try the eatery’s entry in the annual Downtown Burger Battle
Burger Battle champs prepare to defend title while working on expanded new location Read More »
Christmas lights draped across Phillips Avenue and hanging from light posts have been a holiday tradition in downtown for decades. Over the years, however, their appearance has changed. This is downtown Sioux Falls this Christmas season. Charlene Hall shared this photo taken on Phillips Avenue in 1968. She called it an “idyllic Christmas scene
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Santa Claus in a bathtub, scrubbing his back. Santa cheerfully offering a holiday greeting by mooning his viewers. Santa with his arms outstretched. St. Nick with a beard that’s soft to the touch and a satiny robe. Two St. Bernards, puffy stand-ins for the real dogs who live there. Angels. Christmas trees. The Grinch after
Behind this yard of inflatables is couple with boundless Christmas spirit Read More »
Porter is a snappy little girl with blond hair tied up in pigtails and a quick wit. She loves collecting things but has a problem: what to save and what to toss. “She can’t decide what’s good and what’s gross,” author Sean Covel said. “She loves everything equally, and she tends to hoard.” But Porter
South Dakota collaborators create children’s book that kids ‘can’t get enough of’ Read More »
Sometimes as you read a book you come across an unfamiliar word or the mention of an unknown food or a song you’ve never heard before. What do you do when that happens? Maybe you quickly turn to a dictionary or the internet, maybe you make a mental note to learn more about it, maybe
Sioux Falls women launch ‘novel’ business featuring book boxes Read More »
Everyone has a story. Jim Smorada believes that heart and soul. Aided and abetted by a deep emotional connection to a time, place and people, the retired newspaper reporter/editor and college instructor set out four years ago to tell one of those stories. Not his own, mind you, but that of the Morth family: mother,
Local writer’s latest work blends family history with WWII-era tale Read More »
Parental attitudes toward Elf on a Shelf dolls seem to fall into one of two categories: love ’em or loathe ’em. The posable figure that serves as a pre-holiday stand-in for Santa in many families either adds to the joy of Christmas as it moves from spot to spot every night or stresses parents who
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Maybe bring a child along with you when you go see artist Steve Bormes’ new creations later this week and next. Because if you don’t understand his Odditoys, as he has dubbed this collection of found art, someone younger than you will. Bormes learned that when he displayed his lighted art pieces at Rug and
Artist’s ‘Odditoys’ bring sense of whimsy to his latest work Read More »