The Gregory County Veterans Service Office hosted a National Vietnam Veterans Day event on Monday, March 30, 2026, for coffee and rolls at the Gregory County Courthouse. The event was open to area Vietnam War and Vietnam Era veterans.

Last Tuesday night, I went to the Tripp County Library to sit in on a public invitation to the community to learn about foster parenting, sponsored by South Dakota Kids Belong. There is an enormous shortage of foster parents in South Dakota. There are currently about 1700 kids in foster care in South Dakota, with a net loss of 93 families fostering in recent years. The need for families is increasing while the number of foster families is decreasing.

For the first time in about 20 years, the Gregory Elementary had a coed basketball league. The league consisted of four teams in both the 3rd-4th grade division and 5th-6th grade division.

The framers’ wisdom in vesting constitutional control over the war power—its “commencement, continuation and conclusion”—in Congress, as James Madison said, not in the hands of the president, has struck Americans squarely in the face in light of President Donald Trump’s fly-by-the- seat of his pants conduct of his war in Iran, one characterized by tactics without strategy and occasional public pronouncements that, like the mercurial summertime weather, can change from minute to minute. Trump’s arbitrary Truth Social Posts, designed to manipulate the financial markets, are a reflection what his former aide, Steve Bannon, once called his approach to governance--“just win the next five minutes.” They leave Americans to guess at this president’s strategy, goals and end game—if Trump even has any-- in his initiation of a war of choice, which currently costs the United States over $ 1 billion per day, in addition to his request to Congress for an additional $200 billion dollars. All this for something he absurdly calls an “excursion.”

The South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) announced that the Board of Water and Natural Resources has approved $150.7 million in loans and grants for drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste projects in South Dakota.

After the Peace Commission had concluded their deliberations near Council Bluffs in the middle of May, 1825, they proceeded without unusual event to the village of the Ponca Indians at the mouth of the Niobrara River. It was here that a grand council was held and a treaty of friendship was concluded.