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While doing research on the history of horse roundups in America, I came across an amazing event which took place during the last days of World War II. It involved the rescue of the Lipizzaner stallions which were directly in the path of the advancing Russian army. They would have slaughtered the last remaining survivors of that historic breed had they not been rescued. The Red Army was on a collision course with the remaining brigades of the SS, an elite and fanatical Nazi unit in Czechoslovakia.

Funeral services to be held for Myrna Schrader Funeral services for Myrna Schrader, age 83, of Marion, SD, formerly of Gregory, SD, will be held on Friday, March 25, at 2:00 p.m. at Kotrba-Smith Funeral Home in Gregory, SD.

Trenton Seegers has taken the helm of the Gregory/Dallas Chamber of Commerce. Local to the area, Seegers is a graduate of Colome High School.

The Gregory County Board of Commissioners held their regular meeting at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at the Gregory County Courthouse in Burke. Burke Lake clean-up continues Erin Schulte let the commissioners know about the work that she and a group of county residents have been doing to clean up Burke Lake.

The Gregory Volunteer Fire Department responded to a fire that was out of control at the tree dump on Monday, March 21. The city had burned trees on February 23, and the wind caught it from the right direction to turn a still-smoldering pile into a blaze. It followed a draw up to the shoulder of the road, where it traveled to the top of a hill, but the fire department was able to get it extinguished.