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A Gregory, SD, man has been identified as the person who died early Friday morning in a one-vehicle crash south of Gregory. Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2001 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was eastbound on 302nd Avenue, a half mile west of South Dakota Highway 251 (13 miles south of Gregory), when the vehicle entered the south ditch and rolled.

South Dakota’s Republican dominated Legislature passed a general sales tax cut of $104 million per year, lowering the taxes on groceries but not eliminating them entirely as Gov. Kristi Noem had urged.

In what seems to have become a family tradition, George Johnson, following in the footsteps of his father Charles “Rick” Johnson and grandfather George Fielding Johnson, recently won a high-profile murder trial.

The Gregory Economic Development Group (GED) will host the third annual career fair Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at Gregory Memorial Auditorium. Students from Gregory, Burke, and Colome will have an opportunity to visit with representatives from a variety of businesses and schools as they explore career options in or near their hometowns.

Local area dancers from Evonne’s Dance Studio in Fairfax, SD, competed at Bling Fling on Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Winner, SD. Below are dancers that competed and their placements..

Forty-two percent of Americans never went on vacation as a kid, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 U.S.

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The Product of the U.S.A. label will solely belong to livestock born, raised and harvested in the U.S. announced Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. The proposed ruling was announced today, March 6, during the National Farmers Union Convention held in San Francisco.

Stocks are ticking a bit higher Monday as Wall Street’s worries about higher interest rates and the bond market relax a little. The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in early trading after coming off its first winning week in the last four.

Shoppers could soon find it easier to tell if those grocery store steaks or pork chops were really “Made in the USA.” Federal agriculture officials on Monday released new requirements that would allow labels on meat, poultry or eggs to use that phrase -- or “Product of USA” -- only if they come from animals “born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the United States.” That’s a sharp change from current policy, which allows voluntary use of such labels on products from animals that have been imported from a foreign country and slaughtered in the U.S., but also on meat that’s been imported and repackaged or further processed. Imports of beef from countries including Australia, Canada and Brazil, for instance, account for about 12% of the total consumed in the U.S.