Stephanie Wiegand is a registered nurse and her husband is a physician assistant. They moved to Lead with their four young children in the spring of 2020. She found one childcare facility in neighboring Deadwood, but its hours didn’t fit their schedules. “We’re here, but now we’re stuck,” said Weigand. Continue reading Lack of child care options forces South Dakota families to make tough decisions
The Event Center in the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Sioux City North was nearly filled to capacity Monday night with Dakota Dunes residents. They were there to hear about increasing issues of vandalism and related juvenile misbehavior in The Dunes from law enforcement and security officials. Continue reading Dunes residents asked to report vandalism when they see it happen
A company that sought to build a $3 billion carbon sequestration pipeline in South Dakota and several other states announced Friday that it’s giving up on the plan.
“Given the unpredictable nature of the regulatory and government processes involved, particularly in South Dakota and Iowa, the Company has decided to cancel its pipeline project,” said a news release from Navigator CO2. Continue reading Navigator cancels carbon pipeline project
A FiberComm boring machine making holes to run plastic conduit underground accidentally cut MidAmerican Energy electric cable along Dakota Dunes Boulevard this morning leaving approximately 800 utility customers without power. Continue reading FiberComm boring machine severs electrical line; results in Dunes power outage Thursday
There are always a lot of lofty claims associated with new products and services and this new FTTH has not been afraid to use them. One claim in particular is that the service will increase the value of one’s home. The claim is based on a single study done in 2015 and was sponsored by the Fiber Broadband Association, a national trade organization. Continue reading Does fiber broadband increase your home’s value?
By Gary Dickson garydickson@siouxlandobserver.com Dakota Dunes drivers heading off to work Tuesday morning may have noticed groups of workers in florescent green vests digging holes and trenches in the parkways along Dakota Dunes Boulevard. The workers are part of crews employed by FiberComm, a Siouxland telecommunications company, building a fiber-optic internet in the Dakota Dunes community. FiberComm’s webpage describes fiber-optic internet as “cutting edge” and extremely fast at speeds of up to 1 gigabit. The industry refers to fiber-optic as fiber-to-the-home internet, abbreviated as FTTH, that uses fiber optic cables made of tiny strands of glass, each one thinner than … Continue reading FiberComm begins building new fiber Internet network in Dakota Dunes
By Gary Dickson garydickson@siouxlandobserver.com Ever since I was 12 years old, I’ve loved to go to car shows. That was when a buddy of mine begged … Continue reading Cars and Coffee event brings expensive European sports car owners and wannabes together for BBQ and car talk
It’s been nearly nine months since Slowey Management, SRK Development and Dunes Realty announced that the new strip mall at 2 Rivers Drive on the eastern end of the Interstate 29 interchange in Dakota Dunes was ready for potential tenants. The Yankton-based Slowey Management developed the Holiday Inn Express and Convention Center adjacent to the new strip mall that’s been open since 2018. According to a story published in the Sioux City Journal on Jan. 29, 2023, the strip mall is 14,000 square feet in size and has five tenant spaces. Dakota Dunes and North Sioux City residents have watched … Continue reading Whither goes the Dakota Dunes strip mall?
If you’ve been driving outside of town anywhere in Siouxland the last week or so, you’ve likely noticed combines out in the fields. And if you’ve been on the secondary roads in South Dakota, Iowa or Nebraska you’ve probably encountered farm machinery or trucks going between fields or transporting corn or soybeans to the nearest elevator. Yup, it’s that time of year in Siouxland. I’m not a farmer, but I’m always curious as to how harvest is going for those that are. Especially when our local TV meteorologists are forecasting heavy rain for later in the week. And I’ll bet … Continue reading Looks like harvest is going well
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