“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchhill By definition, in order to measure something, one needs an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size. That being said, how can a concept like success be measured, but more importantly, by whose standard? Within the first minutes of life, we measure infants, placing them on a scale, assigning a percentage of where they fall on a growth chart.

The 2021 competitive cheer and dance season started on August 2nd. This past spring we had a tryout in Gregory for sideline cheer, and we started the discussion with Burke about having their girls join our cheer and dance team.

Gregory hosted a cheer and dance invitational on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium. Nine teams attended with six cheer and seven dance teams.

The Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) in cooperation with AgUnited for South Dakota, South Dakota Dairy Producers, South Dakota Corn Utilization Council, Central Plains Dairy Foundation, and East River Electric Power Cooperative have released an economic contribution study of South Dakota Agriculture.

Human trafficking is the act of compelling someone into work or commercial sex through force, fraud, or coercion. It is illegal everywhere but happens every day in big cities and small towns across the United States.

South Dakota lawmakers looking to remake the state’s voterpassed medical marijuana law previewed a coming battle in the Legislature Wednesday, September 1, as they recommended outlawing growing medical marijuana in homes and allowing local governments to prohibit dispensaries.