SDPB Staff

Four South Dakotans are among the new class of Bush Fellows, including an SDPB staffer and a Friends of SDPB board member.

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Gov. Kristi Noem was in her hometown of Castlewood on Thursday night speaking to townspeople after severe storms wreaked havoc on that community and others across eastern South Dakota.

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Lolly Forseth recorded 11 state titles as a gymnastics coach for both Sioux Falls Lincoln and Sioux Falls Washington. She was also the first full-time female athletic director in South Dakota history.

Small town ingenuity has taken another form in downtown Redfield. Leo’s Good Food is a former bank building that has been repurposed into a restaurant, with the salad bar in the vault. And next door, a large retail space that stood empty for a while is now “Wild Roots”. Home to many small businesses not large enough for their own storefront.

Cyclone Flour was one of the brands distributed from the Redfield mill. A sack with the Cyclone design hangs from the balcony of the Spink County Mercantile. It’s just one of the seed and grain bags retired dentist and entrepreneur Clay Yeoman rescued. His collection marks an era when many small towns had their own local seed sellers and there was a golden age of Ag Country seed bags.

If you’ve seen Dances with Wolves, you may be able to spot Redfield's Stan Schultz. Stan and his son Nick have a passion for working with horses, which has landed them roles on the big and small screens. Their ranch near Redfield is where the father and son duo train their horses for Hollywood.

A third of the Carnegie Libraries built have been lost or repurposed. Not so in Redfield. This one is the oldest one in continuous use, as a library, in the state of South Dakota.

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