Smithfield's new facility will be “highly automated.” Will each of the 3,200 workers that run the plant in central Sioux Falls still have a place at the new plant?
- Janelle Atyeo
My father-in-law used to love driving. Whether it was to the corner convenience store for a cup of coffee and a newspaper or to an out-of-the-way truck stop for soup and pie, Dale Hult loved to going out to eat, seeing other regulars at cafes and teasing waitresses with nonstop dad jokes. Th…
- Janelle Atyeo
"I’m the keeper of the calendar for our family of five, the planner of parties, liaison of lost library books, baroness of the bath night schedule."
- Janelle Atyeo
"The holidays can bring a lot of pressure. Try not to let it crush you. Let your heart be light."
- Janelle Atyeo
If back-to-school season has you nostalgic for a hot metal slide or spinning on a merry-go-round, I’ve found the place for you.
- Janelle Atyeo
"I’m admittedly biased, but my hometown puts on the best rodeo this side of the Mississippi."
- Janelle Atyeo
On a trip across South Dakota’s southern border last weekend, my family and I went glamping for the first time. It quite possibly ruined plain old tent camping for me for good.
- Janelle Atyeo
I told my husband the chicks were on tour and they would be stopping by our daughter’s school.
- Janelle Atyeo
Our own Assistant Editor Melisa Goss was recognized for the work she does to share the story of farmers and ranchers and all things rural when she received the Excellence in Public Outreach Award from South Dakota Corn
- Janelle Atyeo
Those magical little beans that covered about 5 million acres of South Dakota’s landscape this year can protect our homes.
- Janelle Atyeo
Our garden is not producing underwear. In fact, quite the opposite.
- Janelle Atyeo
"Just one more minute." I don’t know how many times I said that to my kids over the nine days my husband and household help was away.
- Janelle Atyeo
What better way to spend one of your last free weekends of summer than soaking up 100-degree heat on a rooftop?
- Janelle Atyeo
Our Tri-State Neighbor writers are hot this year. From FFA conventions to national newspaper contests and now recognition of writing as a true artform, our writers have received several awards this year. Well deserved, I say.
- Janelle Atyeo
This marks the 90th year for Farmers Union camps in South Dakota. Editor Janelle Atyeo relived her childhood by taking her daughter to Deuel County's day camp.
- Janelle Atyeo
Time to clean my nest, shake out the winter dust bunnies hibernating in every corner and give everything a fresh sheen.
- Janelle Atyeo
Last Friday, on what would have been my grandpa Ed Atyeo’s 100th birthday, I called up my dad and my uncle Chuck to talk about how the Atyeo family farm has changed in that span.
- Janelle Atyeo
This morning I walked into the kitchen to find a couple half-peeled bananas in the toaster oven. That’s about how things have gone around here this week.
- Janelle Atyeo
The mountain of gifts is unwrapped. It’s become an avalanche of new, sparkling things and recyclables strewn about the house.
- Janelle Atyeo
On the 10th day ‘til Christmas my true love gave to me - a new electric range.
- Janelle Atyeo
There’s no place like home for the holidays. I remember the feeling of coming home from college to my frigid yet familiar small town.
- Janelle Atyeo
Valley Queen Cheese in the in the midst of a major expansion at its Milbank, S.D., plant, where the history goes back 95 years to the time two Swiss immigrants stopped for gas.
- Janelle Atyeo
"Remembering a Coteau hills hike from my youth, I had told Dad before the snow left this spring that I’d really like to find pasque flowers with him this year."
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