A newly renovated store is bringing increased options to downtown Brookings, in the same location where many Brookings residents have searched for furniture in the past. The Brookings Furniture Co. is located in the former home of Rude’s Home Furnishings and will open its doors to customers at 9 a.m. Wednesday. This week only, special…

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$2,500 in prize money awarded Brookings Economic Development Corporation (BEDC) announced the winners of the annual Idea Competition on Friday, Feb. 28 at a public reception held at the Innovation Center. This year marked the thirteenth year of the contest, which encourages Brookings area residents and SDSU students to think about starting new businesses or…

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A new home design and décor store has opened in downtown Brookings, taking up residence at the corner of Main Avenue and Fourth Street.  Pasque – named after the South Dakota state flower – is a sundry “mid-century modern” and “Scandinavian” inspired furniture and gift shop owned and run by Laci Thompson. “Pasque has been…

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South Dakota State University undergraduate students will tell legislators about landscape architecture and food science research at the Student Poster Session March 4 in Pierre. Junior Anthony Miller of Dell Rapids and senior Gabriel Heller of Aberdeen will explain how their landscape designs integrate green infrastructure, such as rain gardens, retention ponds and swales, to…

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Functional space, diverse resources and endless possibility WATCH: KELO News Report Brookings Built Green is excited to celebrate the opening of a unique community resource bringing business opportunity, cultural engagement and fellowship through food. The Brookings Community Kitchen located at 420 Main Avenue is designed to be a food hub for the Brookings region. The…

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Two South Dakota State University mechanical engineering professors are part of an international team of scientists and engineers working to uncover details about how the universe was formed. Associate professors Stephen Gent and Greg Michna are using SDSU’s high-performance computing cluster to predict how argon circulates within the particle detectors to be constructed 1 mile…

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Perkins storage and transfer company still a family business BROOKINGS – The more things change, the more they remain the same. Apply those words to Perkins Storage & Transfer. Since 1919, the Brookings-based company has been a family business. The company that still bears his name was started as a dray service by the late…

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 Daktronics photo: Daktronics video boards were recently installed in the Legends Club at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. BROOKINGS – A new visual experience was installed in Green Bay, Wisconsin, as the Green Bay Packers, Lambeau Field and Titletown partnered with Daktronics of Brookings, to design, manufacture and install nine new LED video walls…

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Brookings Economic Development Corporation

Brookings County residents using child care or planning to use child care in the future are asked to complete survey by February 17th Projections show businesses in Brookings will continue to grow. Currently, there are more than 1,200 job opportunities available within the county. Additionally, 716 jobs are projected to be created by 2022 according…

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BROOKINGS – A team of Mickelson Middle School volunteers put their heads together to help a fellow student play the ukulele. Eighth-graders Jacob York, JJ Love and Zoey Rost engineered a device called the “Strum Buddy” for sixth-grader Sam Hovey-Stubbles, who was born without part of her left arm, just below the elbow.  The students…

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