Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards recognize top quartile performance (i.e., 75th percentile or above) among rural hospitals in three categories of quality, outcomes and/or patient perspective.

Faith communities and mental health communities have been viewed separately; the spiritual and the psychological. Humans are perfectly created as mind, body and spirit, and we know that faith and science work together in wondrous and meaningful ways.

hoden Opportunity and Innovation in Education South Dakota is Open for Opportunity – and that includes opportunities for education. Our students are our future, so it is important that we equip them with the skills and resources they need to thrive! I am proud that South Dakota is home to so many quality schools, and I’m also thrilled that parents have the opportunity to choose new and creative ways to educate their children.

DITOR Dear Editor, Government is Doing Bad #4 Observing the new 300-word limit, my subject today is the ongoing contraction of the livestock industry in South Dakota. Linking this severe problem to the disconnect between cattle prices and beef prices or, in other words, acute market failure, Bill Bullard, CEO of Ranchers Cattlemen Action Legal Fund United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA), weekly anguishes about this problem in The Gregory Times Advocate.

On Nov. 14, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order modifying his Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025, that imposed a trade-rebalancing 10% reciprocal tariff on imported products, including beef and lamb, from all trading partners. Exceptions to the reciprocal tariff requirement included beef, cattle, sheep and lamb from Canada and Mexico, as those products continued receiving preferential treatment provided they originated under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

The Elmer Karl Family Foundation, through National Philanthropic Trust has made an additional grant to The Gregory City Pool Fund in the amount of $60,000.00. This is in addition to the $200,000 in matching funds which have been added to the pool fund, even though the matching amount has not yet been raised.