Deer are common visitors to landscapes even in urban and suburban areas. Fencing is the most effective way to protect your plants but is not always practical or desirable. Your community may have restrictions on fencing, your budget may not support this option, or you prefer not to hide your ...

Yankton Loses Capital By MERRY HELM April 5 — By the 1880s, Dakota Territory’s population was concentrated in very separate regions. In south-central Dakota, Pierre was outfitting thousands of miners who were illegally flooding into the Indian-held Black Hills and populating around ...

The Roosevelt Park Zoo is many things to many people and everyone that enters has their own special reason for being here. Visiting with, or just overhearing conversations, the reasons people visit is often much deeper than a day out with the family. Whether it is the animals and green spaces ...

Since days of the Great Depression, baseball has been considered America’s pastime – until more recent years. Although the moniker might still remain connected to baseball in old-timers’ minds, football now draws greater crowds and television viewers. In the late 1950s, most ...

RUGBY — In its 51 years on a plot of land along east U.S. Highway 2 in Rugby, the Prairie Village Museum has spread its influence far beyond its rural home. Exhibits, volunteers and even collectors of genealogical records bring the museum’s buildings to life every season from May through ...

The Great Plains seemed a strange place to many newcomers. This land had no forests. Many people who decided to take advantage of the Homestead Act came from states with great forests. The Homestead Act did not grant a single farmer enough land to make a living; however, they could add land ...