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At Monday evening’s city council meeting, Public Works Superintendent Guhner Kepler discussed an issue with a sewer main that occurred at 9:30 on a Saturday night that took until 1:00 a.m. to resolve because of a tennis shoe in a sewer main. The crew also pulled out some tree roots and blue shop towels.

A construction meeting for Phase I of the city’s infrastructure project was held May 28, 2025. The sanitary sewer has been installed on Felton Avenue between 5th and 7th streets. They are now continuing north on Felton.

A Burke man who faked his own kidnapping and later violated a protection order while armed has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony charges stemming from two separate incidents in 2023 and 2024.

Who is the oldest person you know in South Dakota? Each year, the South Dakota Health Care Association’s (SDHCA) Century Club seeks to find the answer! If you know of a current living South Dakotan born before January 29, 1916, making this person at least 109 years young, he or she may be our state’s oldest living person! SDHCA would like to honor him or her with the 2025 Centenarian of the Year award. If you are aware of anyone living in South Dakota that was born before January 29, 1916, please reach out to LuAnnSeverson@sdhca.org at your earliest opportunity! In addition, any South Dakotan aged 100 or older is eligible to be recognized as part of SDHCA’s Century Club.

On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Kathleen Wooden Knife declared a state of emergency on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Reservation. Stating that the tribe has, and continues to, experience “severe and pervasive law and order and public health issues related to the epidemic of meth and illicit drug use, drug trafficking, and gunrelated violence and other violent and unlawful activity creating severe and extreme threats to public safety, and the health and welfare of the general public,” she has called upon the United States Government, the U.S.

Southeast Technical College congratulates its students completing their AAS, diploma and certificates at the end of the Spring 2025 semester. A commencement ceremony was held May 9 at the Sioux Falls Arena. Area students include: Samantha Reinartz of Gregory- Mechatronics Technology, Associate of Applied Science Summer Salonen of Gregory-Medical Coding, Associate of Applied Science

The following Southeast Technical College students were recognized on the President’s List for academic achievement during the spring 2025 semester. To be named to the President’s List, students must be seeking a degree and have a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.

Avera has donated to the City of Gregory its former hospital land site in Gregory, SD, for a potential new aquatics center. Demolition of the old hospital on the west side of Gregory is complete.

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On May 29, 2025, R-CALF USA submitted a formal request to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), urging an immediate investigation into the suspected false report that caused a cattle futures selloff on May 27.