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Pictured: Teresa Bartholomew with the Transit bus. Other drivers are Jim Wagner and Janice McCloud and can be reached at 605-228-7938 to schedule a ride.  You may have seen the transit bus around town a lot lately with the cold weather. Riders have realized it is much nicer and easier to ge...Continue Reading

Faulkton Area Foundation was established in 2014 with the goal of raising $200,000 in five years. In the summer of 2020, the foundation board and its stakeholders met that goal and received a matching grant of $50,000 from the South Dakota Community Foundation (SDCF). With the endowment reaching over $250,000...Continue Reading

FAULKTON, SD -- Faulkton Area Economic Development (FAEDC) recently launched a newly designed website, created by Golden Shovel Agency, to further strengthen its online presence and economic growth. The new site includes a visually pleasing layout and is much more user-friendly. “Our organization really wanted to highlight the uniqueness of ou...Continue Reading

Welcomed news for Faulkton area businesses is here. Further relief assistance is now available because the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has reopened the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). On December 27, 2020, the Economic Aid Act became law and extended the authority to make PPP loans through March 31, 2021...Continue Reading

The world as we all knew it changed earlier this year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seemingly overnight, everything that we used to think was normal had changed, and things that once were deemed impossible for the workplace became the “new normal.” Now, seven months later, most o...Continue Reading

A new pathway for operations diversification is here for farms and ranches in Faulk County, South Dakota: agritourism. Agritourism is where agriculture and tourism meet to provide a new income stream for farmers while drawing visitors to the area. For many, agritourism may seem like a new term, so you migh...Continue Reading

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota’s need for more meat processing has Governor Kristi Noem’s attention. The daughter of a Hamlin County farm family wants the Legislature to let her establish a grant program in what soon-might-be the state Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The governor seeks to tap $...Continue Reading

Shop Small is a nationwide movement to celebrate small businesses each and every day and to help communities thrive and stay vibrant, but the Saturday after Thanksgiving is their Super Bowl: Small Business Saturday! This year’s event falls on November 28th, and Faulkton, South Dakota is rolling out the welcom...Continue Reading

Double-digit unemployment — that’s where my career in economic development began. As the country struggled to pull itself out of the Great Recession, I spent my days in workforce and economic development activities ranging from assisting displaced workers to providing resources to businesses to aiding communities in creating a better tomorrow. ...Continue Reading

Much has been written about the disruptions of COVID-19 on every line of business. In the realm of economic development, this has included a recommitment to retention and expansion programs, touting quality of life to capture the influx of remote workers, a rush to virtual site tours, and many othe...Continue Reading

The COVID-19 pandemic has been described as “unprecedented,” “troubling,” and “uncertain.” It is indeed all of those things, but for small business owners trying to find federal aid relief programs, you can add the word “confusing.” However, the official federal resource website for U.S. small businesses affected by COVID-19 wa...Continue Reading

“The town motto is ‘We believe in possible.’ In this town, everything is.” Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 43 percent of the workforce worked from home at least some of the time according to Gallup data. With the pandemic, that percentage increased, and many people switched completely to remote work. Wit...Continue Reading