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Superintendent Sara Anderson brought up the fact at the regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education that the current opt-out is expiring this year. For six years the school has used this money to hire three additional teachers to meet the demand of increasing enrollment. The school’s policy is to cap elementary classrooms at 25 students, which Superintendent Anderson estimates will require a fourth teacher be hired to accommodate the fifth grade next year.

The decision on Joseph Yoder’s application for a variance to build a dwelling on a parcel of less than 40 acres (6.21 acres) in an agricultural district was the hot topic at the regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, February 7.

District 21 legislators were in Gregory Saturday afternoon, February 10, for a cracker barrel, hosted by The Gregory Times-Advocate at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium. About a dozen local residents were on hand to hear from Senator Erin Tobin, Representative Rocky Blare, and Representative Marty Overweg and ask their thoughts on a variety of issues.

MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Law officers from across South Dakota and out of state flashed their emergency lights in unison as hundreds of mourners packed a sports stadium to honor a South Dakota deputy killed in the line of duty.

Every state is a border state. South Dakota is no exception.

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“Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct. I need to be loved by someone who chooses to love me, who sees in me something worth loving. That kind of love requires effort and discipline. It is the choice to expend energy in an effort to benefit the other person, knowing that if his or her life is enriched by your effort, you too will find a sense of satisfaction— the satisfaction of having genuinely loved another.” - Chapman, G. D. (2010). The five love languages.

Who would have thought the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would play the role of facilitating the erosion, if not destruction, of livestock producers’ private property rights? Very recently, 31 members of Congress, 23 state treasurers, and 25 state attorneys general all stepped to the plate and pushed back on the SEC’s proposal that would have allowed Natural Asset Companies to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Recall that these Natural Asset Companies involved empowering investors to control the use of natural resources on land they did not own, including both private and federally managed lands. Now the New York Stock Exchange has withdrawn its proposal but the SEC’s cavalier attitude toward the importance of private property rights remains at issue.

Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are at the core of a new research facility that spans an underground area about the size of eight soccer fields.