by hailey kessenich | Oct 23, 2020 | Connecting People, Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places, The Co-Op
Capital Credits & Other Benefits of Being a Member Owner As member owners, many Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative members received checks or had sizeable credits applied to their August bills. The funds were part of the $7.3 million in capital credits...
by hailey kessenich | Oct 15, 2020 | Connecting People, Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places, The Co-Op
Burke Student Receives $2,000 Scholarship The South Dakota Telecommunications Association (SDTA) has awarded a $2,000 memorial scholarship to Jackson Liewer of Burke, SD. Liewer is pursuing a cybersecurity degree from Dakota State University. According to Liewer, they...
by hailey kessenich | Sep 17, 2020 | Connecting People, Featured
Some Towns See Bright Spot with More Local Shopping When the pandemic first hit, Dell Rapids City Administrator Justin Weiland worried sales tax collections would drop significantly and impede the city’s ability to provide services. “I had nightmare visions of a...
by hailey kessenich | Sep 10, 2020 | Connecting People, Expert Advice, Featured, Uncategorized
Facebook Page or Website On a Monday in March 2018, Jayne Gottsleben took an 11-second video of her husband Bill driving over a collapsible gate on his ATV between livestock pastures. She shared it on Facebook that evening. “By 4 p.m. Tuesday, our video had reached...
by gw_hheg06 | Jul 15, 2020 | Connecting People, Expert Advice, Featured
Golden West Network Handles Increased Demand Think of internet traffic like air traffic. Except instead of planes coming and going from an airport, packets of data continuously enter and leave the network. Engineers monitor and direct traffic by ensuring all data...
by hailey kessenich | Jul 15, 2020 | Connecting People, Featured, Making A Difference, People & Places
Expanding Telemedicine Pandemic Pushes Health System to Accelerate Plans Earlier this year, Monument Health started a two-year plan to rollout an outpatient telemedicine program for its clinics. But instead of following their original timeline, the health system went...
