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Posted Thursday, June 10The Brookings Register
by Jill Fier

City residents got their first look on Monday at a preliminary master plan for Brookings' nature park. City staff and landscape architect Big Muddy Workshop hosted an open house at City Hall this week to show the public what ideas they've come up with so far for transforming the former city landfill site, now commonly referred to as the Southbrook Nature Park.

New city brand tells visitors, residents to ‘bring your dreams’ Posted: Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
BY: Jill Fier

Someplace Special.
I am Brookings.
Imagine life in Brookings.
Forward. Thinking.

Over the years, there has been many a slogan to help people understand why Brookings is a great place to live, work, play, raise a family, get an education, start a business and more.

From The Argus LeaderMay 18, 2010

South Dakota regulators have approved two permits allowing Basin Electric Power Cooperative to build a $400 million gas-fired, combined-cycle power plant near Brookings.

The Public Utilities Commission approved permits for the Deer Creek Station power plant and a natural gas pipeline to bring fuel to the plant.

South Dakota State University, its dairy industry partners and private donors held a ceremonial groundbreaking May 7 for the dairy plant renovation project at SDSU.
The planned remodeling and additions will turn the 50-year-old plant into a modernized dairy processing research and education plant laboratory.

From The Brookings RegisterPosted: Friday, May 7, 2010
By: Ken Curley

Life is easy these days you've got no money worries, and you're just kind of floating along, content with life and immune to all the negative hubbub going on in the rest of the world.

What? Not so?

Well, that's how you should be feeling, according to the Associated Press, whose AP Economic Stress Index has just revealed that Brookings County ranks No.