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Hempcrete blocks and panels could be produced in the U.S. for the first time since 1937 thanks to a facility being built in the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. 

Submissions about charities, benefits and nonprofit fundraisers for the weekly Good Neighbors calendar published Wednesdays should be emailed to news@wctrib.com by noon Friday.

On reservations where housing affordability and quality are persistent problems, temperatures at or below zero or always a concern. Earl Pendleton, a former tribal council member with the Lower Sioux Community, is turning to hemp to help solve those problems as well as create economic opportunities for tribal members.

Submissions about charities, benefits and nonprofit fundraisers for the weekly Good Neighbors calendar published Wednesdays should be emailed to news@wctrib.com by noon Friday.

REDWOOD FALLS — Services for “Mahpiyakuyeda” meaning Low Cloud, Atreyu Anthony Guy Dow “Bundles,” 21, of Redwood Falls will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Lo

"What the Lower Sioux is doing is the most compelling and forward-thinking thing that’s happening in hempcrete today."

For now, its only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern …

The district faces a state mandate to end the use of the Braves mascot and logo, which it has used for 78 years.

GRANITE FALLS — The Upper Sioux Agency State Park will be closed to the public starting Feb. 16 as the state transfers the property to the Upper Sioux Community.