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The regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners was held at 9 a.m., Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at the Gregory County Courthouse. The final details of the courthouse’s new HVAC system should be finished up by the end of the week of October 20-25, and the cleaning crew was scheduled to come in over the weekend of October 25-26.

When Jolene Baxa-Ward and her husband Mark acquired the Herrick Dance Hall in 2022, they didn’t have any big plans for the building. Jolene grew up in Herrick, and she and her husband come back to visit frequently.

“Without my morning coffee, I’m just like a dried-up piece of roast goat.” – Johann Sebastian Bach We are fed the idea that coffee is essential to our morning routines. Whether it boosts alertness or nudges nature’s call, coffee is now a global commodity as well as a social and business lubricant.

Feeding others is the life’s work of family farmers and ranchers. And caring for neighbors in need matters to the members of South Dakota’s largest agriculture organization. For these reasons South Dakota Farmers Union donated 35,000 pounds of pork on October 17, 2025 to Feeding South Dakota.

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Recent media reports indicate President Trump is working to lower beef prices in the United States, with some reports indicating Argentina may play a role in the administration’s price-lowering strategy.

It’s time we consider facts, not beef industry propaganda. Fact No.

Increased receiving capacity and bunker space should reduce wait times and support the strengthening of market access for growers CHS Inc., the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative, is expanding capacity to improve efficiency at its Winner, S.D., location to better serve local farmers now and into the future. The facility has increased its receiving capacity from 10,000 to 15,000 bushels per hour and is adding one million bushels of new bunker space.

On Sunday, October 29, 2025, aboard Air Force One, the Associated Press reported that President Trump announced his plan to bring US beef prices down by importing beef from Argentina. Bill Bullard, CEO of R-CALF USA, the nation’s largest cattle association that exclusively represents cattle farmers and ranchers, issued the following statement in response to the president’s purported plan.

South Dakota’s graduating class of 2025 earned an average ACT composite score of 21.0, well above the national average of 19.4. The ACT is a standardized test used for college admissions in the United States. The test includes four academic skill areas: English, mathematics, reading, and science.