Peggy Sanders

Those beautiful yards which are shown in magazines make me wistful, though it appears the landscaping is in towns and cities. The featured photos are also captured in areas where it rains frequently like Maine, parts of California or even England. I’d like to dare Good Housekeeping or a similar publication to capture such a glorious yard out where it seldom rains and the wind often blows. We do what we can to make our landscapes appealing yet it would be quite a stretch to say they are lush. We know our limitations.

We talk about volunteering quite often and most of the time it is easy to work it into our schedules. But emergency responders have no schedule and it really came to light a few years...

Trying to explain our rural life to urban dwellers who have never lived in a rural area may be met with skepticism, to put it mildly. As a trustee with the South Dakota State Historical...

I thought “everybody” knew about the dangers of keeping perishable food in a hot car without it being in an icy cooler, but I was wrong. When two friends in their 80s came for a visit they ate at Jalapenos, a local restaurant. The wife says she is a connoisseur of chimichangas, a popular dish, and in fact she proclaimed it, “The best I have ever eaten.” Since they are world travelers, she has eaten a lot of them and she knows.

It amazes me and makes me so sad when people do not vote. Yes, one vote makes a difference. In our county commissioner primary, the winner was chosen by one vote. That race is as...

Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development

Have you felt that you were invisible in the eyes of others? A few years ago when the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad wanted to build a new railway line just one-half mile from our...

Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services development

Twenty years ago, the Pioneer Museum in Hot Springs, S.D., started the Focus on Fall River History Conference. At that time the museum was not doing well financially because of an over-exuberance of advertising. The...

How advertisers refer to things is often simply a marketing gimmick. Does anyone shopping in a gardening center ever question the label on a bag that says, “Steer manure?” Is it better than cow manure...