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2 days ago | dailyyonder.com | Nick Fouriezos

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. Two years ago, nearing the end of the spring semester at Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, Cynde Larsen brought together her faculty and delivered news that could have broken them.

3 days ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Up until last week, Alaska existed only in my imagination. I pictured a vast landscape full of glaciers and grizzlies and Chris McCandless in his teal bus outside of Denali, living off the land until it killed him.

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Pat Raia

When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn’t set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove, Illinois – but she probably should have. That’s because Downers Grove was a prime location for siting Sears homes in the 1920s and 1930s. Now, there are 66 Sears kit homes located in the mid-size town – the fifth highest concentration of kit homes in Illinois, according to Nina Fuscaldo, curator of the Downers Grove Museum.

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Nick Fouriezos

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. Earlier this year, the experts at the national nonprofit Education Design Lab noticed something strange.

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. I often wonder what it’s like to be an animal living through the extinction of your own species. An estimated 150 species go extinct every day, making it one of the most commonplace, yet tragic, stories in the anthropocene.