After more than 46 years of serving the Wessington Springs community, Jon and Carla Niemeyer stand in the dining room of the Springs Inn Café, where they’ve welcomed generations of customers since 1980. Health concerns have prompted the couple to seek new owners who will carry on the Main Street restaurant’s longtime tradition.

Sandy Jones carefully scrubs years of moss and lichen from a headstone at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Wessington Springs. Jones began cleaning the cemetery’s aging markers last summer and has devoted more than 40 hours to the volunteer project this year.