Patrick Lalley

Acoustic music festival offers laid-back format in unique new event

The concept behind the Montrose Music Festival is simple. It just looks unorganized. There is a system behind the three-day festival, Aug. 27-29, that features acoustic music through collaboration and spontaneity. The pace and the performance are unlike other musical events. There’s no stage. No schedule. No real plan, other than musicians and artists gathered

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Beach volleyball player with Sioux Falls roots aims for 2024 Olympics

While you’ve been watching the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Taryn Kloth has been dreaming of Paris. That’s where the Olympic traveling carnival heads next for the Games in 2024. Kloth is training and planning with hopes of qualifying for Team USA in women’s beach volleyball. It’s a seemingly contradictory destination for a woman who grew

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Staying sober: Those in recovery say it has been their toughest year ever

Connection is a universal tenet of addiction recovery. Whether it’s alcohol or the various chemical substances used to dull reality, a frequent thread is isolation, a way to stay in one place that feels better than another place. At least for a while. That’s an over-simplification of a deeply complex mental and physical condition. But

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Fate intertwines Sioux Falls cycling leader with honoring descendants of Wounded Knee

If you see Kasey Abbott walking down Phillips Avenue on the way to his loft in the Carpenter Building, you might think he’s just another empty nester who moved downtown to get away from mowing the lawn. Which is true. However, you’d never know that Abbott, 62, is the center point of a proclamation presented

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