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Remember flu season? It’s basically gone this year

February typically means we’re dealing with the flu. For the past several years, influenza cases have peaked in South Dakota in the third week of…

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Sioux Falls schools install COVID-deterring air technology

The air quality inside Sioux Falls schools just got better. The public school district installed an indoor air quality technology called AtmosAir Solutions in January,…

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Confessions of a hockey parent

Our parent “confessions” series gives an inside, anonymous (unless you choose otherwise) look at life in the activities that help define our kids’ childhoods. In…

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My 605: Kristin Hoefert-Redlinger

What’s home unless you make it your own? My 605 takes you inside the lives, loves and little secrets of those who call South Dakota…

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Salad bar 2.0: Minervas goes local in recasting classic favorite

This paid piece is sponsored by Minervas. For a portion of the Sioux Falls dining public, this has been a massive, monthslong hole in the…

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When a New Year’s resolution unexpectedly transforms your life

This paid piece is sponsored by Avera. By Sonja Hegman If you had told me at this time four years ago that I’d be living…

She’s a published author, Taylor Swift’s pen pal – and she’s 11

Emerson Weber talks fast when she’s excited. Her blue eyes light up behind her big glasses. She leans in and uses her hands for emphasis…

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This college senior needed brain surgery. Eight days later, she was back at school

This paid piece is sponsored by Sanford Health. Sitting with her mother at the Sanford USD Medical Center, Alyssa Bossman waited for a phone call…

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For 100 days, he was a hospital patient. Ever since, his mission is to thank nurses

It might be free coffee and a bagel on their way to work. Or a surprise doughnut at shift change. Once, it was a chocolate…

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10 things to try in (and around) Sioux Falls this winter

Leave it to winter to make the shortest days of the year feel like some of the longest. But Sioux Falls winters don’t mean you’re…

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