Opinion

Letting go can be hard. Often, we hear the people in our lives telling us to “just let it go.” But it seems so difficult for the person holding on. Andrea Mathews, LPC, NCC shares, “we tend to believe that the reason we hold on is because of what someone did or didn’t do, because of the loss of someone.” We believe so much that we can change the situation, because if we cannot make it better, the alternative is grief and adjustment. But what if this season is not meant to follow us to the next?

On Wednesday evening, September 14, Samantha Cole is alleged to have stolen almost $6,000 from the lottery cash drawer at Gus Stop at the intersection of highways 18 and 47 in Gregory. According to the police report filed, video footage appears to show Ms.

The origin of “sky pilot” as a reference to missionary, pastor, or clergyman is unknown and there is no record of the situation under which someone decided to use that term when referring to an individual who preached the gospel. We do have some records which indicate that it was first used in 1865.

Dear Editor: Missouri River Energy Services of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and MidAmerican Energy Company of Des Moines, Iowa, would like you to believe that the Gregory County Pumped Storage Project is beneficial to “our region.” We disagree. Check out the three P’s below and visit with the members of Citizens Against Missouri River Pumped Storage Project (CAMRPSP) to learn more.

2022 is on track to be another fantastic year for economic investment in South Dakota. Since I took office, I have championed our state as the best place in the country to do business. We had all the ingredients to succeed, even before the COVID pandemic hit, but now we’re breaking records for economic growth and business investment.

Applications are currently being accepted from South Dakota high school students interested in serving as pages for the 2023 Legislative Session. Pages are appointed to serve in the House of Representatives or the Senate for one of five terms during January, February, and March.

On Monday, September 12, Governor Kristi Noem announced that following several weeks of medical treatment in South Dakota for a back injury, the Governor underwent successful back surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

The South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs will be hosting a “Coffee and Conversation” event in Charles Mix County on September 21, 2022, at the American Legion Post in Wagner, SD, from 10:00 until noon. Working in partnership with your county veterans service officer, the Department wants the opportunity to visit one-on- one with veterans and see what’s brewing!

From the earliest settlement of America by those coming from Europe, the religious denominations, through their missionaries and pastors, were represented all across the country as they moved west from the Atlantic Ocean. The missionaries and fur trappers were the first “outsiders” to move into the Dakota Territory.

Governor Kristi Noem and 21 of her fellow Republican governors sent a letter to President Biden saying they oppose his plan to forgive students their federal loans, saying that debt would then have to be paid for by taxpayers. “Only 16-17 percent of Americans have federal student loan debt, and yet, your plan will require their debts to be redistributed and paid by the vast majority of taxpayers,” wrote Governor Noem and her colleagues.