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For those of you who read my weekly columns, you know that they can take on many forms. They’re often focused on updating you on changing policies or issues that I am focused on. Sometimes they celebrate major events in our state, holidays, or the achievement of something that we’ve been working on for a while.

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Commentary by Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA The U.S. has long had tariffs and tariff-rate quotas in our cattle, beef, and sheep and lamb industries. But the problem is that the tariffs are way too low to be effective.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance has filed a Complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) unlawful new rule requiring electronically readable (EID) eartags for certain cattle and bison transported across state lines, rather than long-used visual tags. Representing ranchers, farmers, and livestock producers who move cattle across state lines, NCLA urges the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota to halt this illegal attempt to eliminate an already-in-place efficient means of cattle identification.

Two weeks after graduating from Southern State college with an associate of life science and electronic repair degree, Ray Martinmaas was drafted into the Army. It was 1970 and while many of his classmates went to Vietnam, the Army had other plans for Martinmaas.

District 21 voters (Aurora, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, and Tripp counties, including the entirety of the Yankton Indian Reservation) will have a choice between Dan Kerner-Andersson and Mykala Voita for District 21 Senate in this year’s election.

This story is the first installment in a series of articles. Gregory’s history of hospitals is somewhat scarce and sometimes contradictory, but it is worth taking a look down memory lane as the “old” hospital and nursing home will soon be relegated to the history books as well.

If your little goblins are looking for a ghoulishly good time this Halloween, then Gregory has the perfect concoction brewing at three haunted happenings. The festivities will begin at 4:00 p.m.

Two seats on the Gregory County Board of Commissioners are up for election this year. In District 2, incumbent Lance Matucha is being challenged by Peg Glover.

On Sunday, Oct. 20, GHS held its annual oral interpretation contest for local high school students. Eighteen students performed various pieces for audience members and a panel of judges. The winners in each of the seven categories advanced to districts.