May 1, 2025 | Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places
A little sunshine helps brighten the day Merlin Goebel says the most important ingredient in running a successful business in a small community is getting to know your customers and being able to adapt to their needs. That might mean bringing in an unusual product...
May 1, 2025 | Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places
Field tech finds career fit closer to home Austin Parry hasn’t strayed far from his hometown of Canistota and the family farm upon where he grew up. After high school he studied Wi-Fi and broadband technologies down the interstate at Mitchell Technical College. As a...
Dec 5, 2024 | Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places, Uncategorized
Hartford Fire and Rescue volunteer dedicates time to community safety With the internet and phone services provided by Golden West, Hartford Fire and Rescue and its dedicated volunteers, like Doni Rolfson, serve their community through firefighting, EMT work, and...
Aug 29, 2023 | Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places
Meet Keisha – Serving co-op members and her community! Keisha and her husband Austin were looking for a smaller community with a good school system when they moved to Hartford in 2019. “My husband and I lived in Sioux Falls, but we wanted to get out of the busy...
Mar 15, 2023 | Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places
‘Sweet’ business born out of vanilla-making hobby Taylor Ernster turned a hobby into a business so successful it was one of 10 South Dakota companies to make the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. in 2022. “We never in a...
