The information for this column was taken from one of the volumes written by George Kingsbury who was editor of The Yankton Press and Dakotan in the late 1800s. At that time there was a conflict between the State Nonpartisan League and the State Defense Council which had a representative living in Dallas. As best that I am able to determine from the newspaper articles, both of these organizations had an unusual amount of hatred and distrust for the other. They did not like the other and it appears that most of their history and involvement with the other was a “cat and dog” affair.

Dear Editor, Veterans Day Every year, I place a poppy wreath at our gate that says,” Lest we Forget”, which is related to a poem written by a fallen soldier in WW1, that I memorized in school,” In Flanders Fields”. I am a 45-year associate member of the Canadian Legion because my father served in the Canadian Army, hauling supplies to the Allied forces in Western Europe in WW2. My wife is an associate Legion member because her father was a Marine and was at the awful invasion of Palau. Her mother was an enlistment officer who had a friend whose father grew up in Gregory and was a Lakota code talker.

Did you ever wonder why Veterans Day is on the 11th of November and does not change? World War II ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Originally, it was called Armistice Day.

Gregory County FFA attended the FFA National Convention in Indianapolis, October 28-November 1, 2025. The trip was educational as well as fun for the 13 students who went.

Wind energy no longer a feasible pursuit in Gregory County The South Central Wind Association recently made the decision to dissolve the association, citing the inability to get generated power out of the area and changes in government standards and regulations. The remaining board members decided to give their remaining funds of $10,500 to the Gregory County FFA chapter “...thus help-ing to promote the future of youth and agriculture in our county,” they said in a statement.

When a tornado ripped through Burke in 2019, the town’s only attorney was crucial to getting two families who lost their homes a new place to live through the Governor’s House Program. Rachelle Norberg might not have been there at all, though, if it weren’t for a collaborative effort between the State Bar of South Dakota, the South Dakota Unified Judicial System (UJS) and rural areas in desperate need of more practicing attorneys.