Newsletter Your weekend, simplified: Oct. 5, 2024 Unpacking the complexities of balancing, as Police Chief Jon Thum puts it, "compassion and accountability" downtown. And get smart about scary movies with a local filmmaker.
Get Smart Get smart about scary movies with Brian Bieber Brian Bieber is a Sioux Falls writer, director and filmmaker.
City The not-so-simple dilemma of panhandling and homelessness As the City of Sioux Falls gives police more authority in interacting with the unhoused population, Police Chief Jon Thum admits homelessness is not something that can ever be solved by law enforcement.
Newsletter Your week, simplified: Oct. 2, 2024 Healing through movement, small-town theater, the latest crime stats and how to find a good spook this weekend.
Community How The Compass Center is healing through care, movement and Taylor Swift tickets Two nonprofits are teaming up to help survivors of sexual assault and other familial or relational trauma.
Simplified Presents Meet the small-town theater bringing thousands each year to Worthing The Olde Town Dinner Theatre in Worthing brings 100 people nightly to the town of less than 1,000 people south of Sioux Falls.
Your weekend, simplified: Sept. 27, 2024 Happy Friday! Megan here. Weather check: Sunny and warm This week, I'll introduce you to the "new" Nordic Hall and the creative businesses inside. You'll also get to know a new nonprofit looking to use empathy as medicine
Community How the 'new' Nordic Hall is bringing creatives together It might look nondescript on the outside, but Nordic Hall – a historic office building on the south side of downtown – is bursting with creative energy.
Health Meet the new nonprofit using empathy as medicine A Sioux Falls-based nonprofit is looking to create more empathy in the healthcare system by better understanding the experiences of immigrants and refugees.
Newsletter Your week, simplified: Sept. 25, 2024 How the childcare crisis is giving Sisyphus, good news for theatre kids and what's happening this week.
City As centers risk closing, council says direct support for childcare a ‘hard sell’ Providers say without direct funding, the ongoing childcare crisis in Sioux Falls will remain an issue. But that’s going to be a “hard sell” for the community, Councilor Curt Soehl noted.
Simplified Presents How Spotlight Theatre Company is giving kids space to shine A Washington Pavilion program designed to give kids an opportunity to be involved in all aspects of theater has a new name, and with it a hope to better communicate the message that theater is for everybody.
Newsletter Your weekend, simplified: Sept. 20, 2024 Fall fun, a new third place and a whole bunch of tiny news.
Community Where to find fall fun in the Sioux Falls area From apple picking to pumpkin patches to corn mazes, there's a lot of fall fun to be had in the Sioux Falls area. Here's your simplified guide to what's happening.
Simplified Presents Meet the woman bringing a new 'third place' to Sioux Falls Sioux Falls entrepreneur Shannon Ward has a new downtown location she hopes will be a space where people can gather, create community and connect without the presence or pressure of drinking alcohol.
Newsletter Your week, simplified: Sept. 18, 2024 Ballot measures, taxidermy, disorderly conduct, beer, bus routes and nosy neighbors.
Elections Your guide to South Dakota ballot measures Here's your simplified guide to the seven statewide ballot measures, where they came from, and what your vote will mean.
Events Stuff to do: Sept. 18-24 NASA rovers to secondhand shopping to a new-to-South Dakota film festival.
Elections Why we're celebrating Democracy Day Sioux Falls Simplified is joining news outlets nationwide to recognize the importance of democracy.
Newsletter Your weekend, simplified: Sept. 13, 2024 Food as medicine, lemons to lemonade and a light load going into the weekend.
SoDak Simplified How a new statewide group is treating food as medicine A new statewide group is looking to help South Dakotans find access to healthy foods in an effort to decrease nutrition-related diseases through a "food is medicine" initiative.
Simplified Presents How Salem is making lemonade from lemons with new housing development The Salem Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) will break ground this week on a new housing development on the site where a nursing home was destroyed in a 2022 derecho weather event.
Your week, simplified: Sept. 11, 2024 Happy Wednesday! Megan here. Weather check: Warm, maybe a little smoky Status check: Coming back from Chicago, I've got a ton of new ideas for how to make Sioux Falls Simplified a better – and more sustainable – local news outlet. But first, I&
