Opinion

Lynn Wall Anderson, 61, New Bern, NC, speeding on state highway, fine $39.00, court costs $50.00, surcharges $28.50. William Klug, 68, Mitchell, SD, seat belt violation, fine $25.00.

Do you find yourself wondering where your tax dollars go? In South Dakota, the simple answer is to education, health care, public safety, and other state government operations. But if you really want to talk dollars and cents, I can break it down for you using the change you find in your couch cushions.

• GRANT WRITING - October 7, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

In the early days of ranching on the frontier, the stealing of livestock was usually accomplished by the simple and straightforward means of openly riding up to a herd of cattle and driving some of them away. The effort might be simple and forthright, or it could be “decorated with violence and gun play.” Those stories in the “True West” magazines were often the result of colorful exaggeration and explicit details.

After recess for lunch, the Gregory County Board of Commissioners reconvened in joint session with the Gregory County Planning Commission on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. The purpose of the joint meeting was to give the Planning Commission the opportunity to recommend approval or amend Ordinance No 2021-02: Medical Cannabis Single Dispensary - Amendment to the Gregory County Zoning Ordinance, which the county commissioners had passed earlier that morning.

The Gregory County Board of Commissioners held a special meeting at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 8, 2021, at the Burke Civic Center, to present and review the five-year county highway and bridge plan and get public input. Only one person, however, showed up.

I heard about it on the radio. The fall morning of Sept. 11, 2001, was a regular day driving in my truck to the family farm. Until it wasn’t. The first reports were coming through my pickup truck’s speakers: an airplane has flown into the World Trade Center in New York City.

The state of Montana holds the record for the bloodiest vigilante movement from 1863 to 1865, when hundreds of suspected horse thieves were rounded up and hung from the nearest tree. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Old West had instituted official legal entities throughout the states. At that time, most of the vigilante groups had disappeared.

South Dakota lawmakers tasked with redrawing the state’s political boundaries set a framework Monday, August 30, that will allow them to speed through the oncein-a-decade process on a tight schedule this year.

I love the fall. Cooler days.