At the regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education, held at noon, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, Superintendent Sara Anderson reported that she, Business Manager Kevin Myrmoe, and the building and grounds committee recently met with city representatives to discuss the Gregory Memorial Auditorium as a whole.

At the Gregory City Council meeting, held at 6 p.m., Monday, April 20, 2026, Mayor Al Cerny presented three alternatives an engineer from SPN Helms provided for street reconstruction as part of the city’s water and sewer project. The council agreed that they didn’t want to go through all the work for new streets and not make them last as long as possible. They, therefore, chose full reconstruction with three inches of asphalt.

Burke VFW & Auxiliary Post 9950 will be hosting a “Loyalty Day Celebration” at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 3, 2026 at the Burke VFW Post. The celebration is a potluck that is open to the public. Included in the celebration will be recognition of youth, adult, and group accomplishments of community leaders from the Burke area.

Bethany Eggers, MA, LPC-MH Grief has a way of unsettling everything we thought was stable. It distorts time, rewrites priorities, and introduces emotions that can feel unfamiliar or even frightening. In those moments, many people quietly ask themselves a question they’re almost afraid to say out loud: Am I losing it? Erica Sirrine offers a powerful reframe: “You are not going crazy, you are going human.” That idea doesn’t just comfort, it corrects a deep misunderstanding about what grief actually is.

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The Billie Sutton Leadership Institute has announced its 2026 class of Sutton Leaders and Rural POWER participants, marking its eighth year of inspiring and preparing leaders in South Dakota. Fifteen new members gathered this past weekend in Gregory, SD for a kickoff training seminar that launches the year-long leadership development program.