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At the regular meeting of the Gregory City Council on Monday, September 16, 2024, the council approved the airport Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) grant pre-applications for the t-hangars that are scheduled for construction in 2025. SPN & Associates, the engineering company the city is working with on the project, had to re-do the application because the project was moved to 2025 with completion in 2026 in order to secure more funding. The city’s share of the AIP will be $28,026 and $43,948 for the BIL. For about $70,000, the city will have a new hangar with four stalls worth about $800,000. Some of that $70,000 has already been spent on engineering costs in preparation of the project. City Finance Officer Trudy Waterman has already received calls from airplane owners interested in renting a stall.

On Saturday, September 21, 2024, the Prairie Wanderers Volkssport Club is sponsoring a 5km (3.1 mile) and a 10km (6.2 mile) “Gregory City (Dannie Peters Memorial) Volksmarch”. Registration will take place at Gregory City Park (West 11th Street) in Gregory, SD. Registration is 8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Fee is $4.00 for walkers who wish to receive the IVV credit stamp. All other walkers must register, but need not pay a fee.

Highway Superintendent Tyler Plumbtree presented his five-year road and small structures plans during the regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners on Monday, September 16, 2024, and answered questions from those in attendance.

The city of Gregory is looking to add a new chapter to its swimming pool history, and raising money to build a new pool has been going on for several years. The primary reason for building the first pool, the Gregory Plunge, wasn’t for swimming.

Fr. Scott Bullock, bishop-elect of the Rapid City Diocese, will visit Gregory and Tripp Counties October 3-4, 2024, for the annual Bishop’s Hunt for Seminarians.

The City of Gregory has collaborated with Gregory County to reduce costs to have access to an emergency notification system. Through AlertSense, Gregory County is in a territory with Lyman and Tripp Counties, under Winner Dispatch, so alerts can be sent seamlessly throughout the three counties.

Applications are now open for South Dakota high school students interested in serving as pages for the historic 100th Session of the South Dakota Legislature. The program is open to high school juniors and seniors, including home-schooled students, from any school district in South Dakota, and gives them the opportunity to experience the legislative process firsthand by serving in the House of Representatives or the Senate for one of five terms during the session's main run.

Area farmers are reminded that the deadline to purchase a NAP policy on Rye is September 30, 2024. The Gregory County FSA Office in Burke, SD may be contacted at 605-7759122.

Secretary of State Monae L. Johnson would like to provide important information regarding absentee voting in the November 5, 2024 General Election.

Memorial services scheduled for Jim Lebert Memorial services for Jim Lebert, age 76, of Aurora, CO, will be held at Prairie View Gospel Barn in Gregory, SD, on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. Inurnment will follow in the IOOF Cemetery. Kotrba-Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.