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Erynn Meyerink is the new manager at Silver Threads Assisted Living. When they took over, Jim and Dulce Frank managed the facility.

Trudy Waterman is the new finance officer for the City of Gregory. Waterman lives in Naper, NE, where she and her husband have a feed yard. Although she still lends a hand with the operations, her main responsibility over the past several years has been doing the bookwork, so she is familiar with the responsibilities of her new job, though with fewer accounts. Switching from paper to Quickbooks has freed up enough of her time to pursue other employment opportunities.

Enrollment at the Gregory School District is down by one student as the 2023-24 school year begins. This biggest drop is in high school, where the total is down by eight despite the sophomores being the largest class in the district with 36 students.

A bridge naming ceremony honoring SP5 John P. Beckers was held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, August 27, at the Burke VFW Post 9950 in Burke.

Zucchini season is in full swing - unless the squash beetles have invited themselves to your garden. Regardless of how many or few hills of this summer staple we plant, it seems to come much faster than we can use it. So, before you start sneaking it onto your neighbors’ porches, freeze some to use in recipes throughout the winter. Or try one of the following recipes - or one of a multitude that can be found online. It doesn’t even require much creativity to sneak some of this mild vegetable into just about any recipe.

Gregory County 4-H held their 2023 Achievement Days at the Burke Rodeo Arena August 5-8. Saturday kicked off Achievement Days with a dog demonstration by Sawyer Tietgen at the Burke City Park right before the Dog Days parade. Display exhibit judging started Sunday, August 6th, at the Burke Civic Center, with a dessert bar stocked with desserts made by 4-Hers.

The Department of Social Services (DSS) recently launched a version of the Behavioral Health Voucher Program, offering funding assistance for mental health services to employees of statelicensed and registered childcare providers.

The South Dakota Democratic Party ousted Jennifer Slaight-Hansen as state chair on Saturday amid accusations that she violated party rules and created a hostile work environment for staff. The party`s State Central Committee voted 57-0, with two abstentions, to remove Slaight-Hansen.

Ronald Reagan had a famous line he often used during campaign debates: “Well, there you go again.” I think about that line every time Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL) resurfaces. Representative Dusty Johnson recently joined Senator Thune and Senator Rounds bringing forward an MCOOL bill, and once again, agriculture will be debating the need for MCOOL legislation. This is very disappointing to me because I feel there are far more important issues to agriculture that we should be talking about as we are working on a new Farm Bill. The current Farm Bill expires in September and issues such as MCOOL detract from the critical issues that must be in the new bill.

From July 30th to August 11th, the music department had 24 total students attend Rushmore Music Camp. Twenty kids, grades sixth - ninth attended the Junior High Rushmore Music Camp held in Aberdeen, and four high school kids attended camp help at Camp Judson in the Black Hills.