Rural communities use state funding to open local centers
It’s been over six months since two in-home child care providers closed in Highmore. The town of over 600 in central South Dakota has a few other in-home providers, but all are full and have waitlists months out.If a family wanted to move to the town – about an hour’s drive east of Pierre – there wouldn’t be any child care for them, said Beth Simonson, a board member of Hyde Co...