May 6th – 10th is Teacher Appreciation Week, a time to celebrate our educators and thank them for everything they do for our students. But there’s an ongoing problem in South Dakota – teacher salaries have not kept up with increased funding to education.

In his report to the Missouri River Commission for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1897, Captain Hiram Chittenden published a list of the loss of 295 steamboats on the Missouri River from the beginning of steam navigation to the date of his report. Twenty of those disasters occurred in South Dakota and four along the eastern border of Gregory County.

Letter to Editor Remember the distrust we feel about the vote tabulating system is NOT directed at any individual or group of individuals in Gregory County. Who is Rick Weible and SDCanvassing Commission? Rick is a cyber security expert, holding very high credentials on a national level.

The 2023-24 Gregory City Council finished up a few items of old business before adjourning to swear in the 2024-25 council. Discussion on the city lots at 509 and 511 Main Street was tabled pending a meeting with the new council.

Gregory High School graduation is the day before Mother’s Day. And while this column from Erma Bombeck is for all mothers, it especially hits home for those mothers whose eyes might leak a little as they watch their sons and daughters graduate and move on to the next phase of their lives, away from their childhood homes. Mothers, have faith that God very carefully created you to perform the job of nourishing the lives to whom He entrusted you and whom you have prepared to handle whatever their future holds.

The Gregory High School class of 2024 has chosen Gregory School District Superintendent Sara Anderson as their commencement speaker. Anderson, a Gregory native and member of the GHS class of 1995, graduated magna cum laude from Northern State University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Science in elementary education.