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We learn emotion long before we ever speak a word. As children, we watch how the adults around us express feelings, how they handle stress, how they repair conflict, and how they reach for comfort or don’t. We most commonly absorb the emotional habits of the people that raise us. These early experiences shape our developing attachment patterns and become the emotional “language” we carry into adulthood. We don’t choose these patterns; we inherit them through observation, repetition, and survival.

When Dale Hanna brought the first dog home in 2001, starting a rescue wasn’t on his or Marie Palmer’s radar. He was an electrician working on the SWA (Sicangu Wicoti Awayankapi Corporation, the primary tribal housing authority and community development entity for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe) at the time. He rescued a puppy from two dogs who were going to eat him. He named the pup Tug because one dog had him by the hip and the other by the neck, and they were pulling him between them.

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As we celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States this year, the Gregory Times-Advocate is featuring a column periodically to recount key events and people that led to our country’s independence.

After receiving little to no pushback about reducing the speed limit in town, the Gregory City Council approved the purchase of 35 new signs at their regular meeting on Monday, August 3, 2026. Mayor Laura Petersen talked about the good of the lower speed limit given the increased number of e-bikes, scooters, and golf carts traveling around town.

Governor Larry Rhoden signed Executive Order 2026-08 to assist agriculture producers during the drought emergency by easing transportation restrictions. “South Dakota’s ranchers have always weathered difficult seasons with grit and determination,” said Governor Rhoden.

BILLINGS, Mont., July 27, 2026 – A just-released advocacy paper commissioned by the Meat Institute and completed by Decision Innovation Solutions (DIS), titled “The Economic Impact of MCOOL on the Beef and Pork Value Chains,” asserts that reinstating mandatory country of origin labeling (MCOOL) for beef and pork would result in more than $1 billion in annual costs of producing, packing and selling beef and pork, which in turn would increase the consumers’ price of beef by about 9 cents per pound.

The high sales price for Gus the T. rex could stimulate greater interest in South Dakota’s fossil hunting and dinosaur museum industries.

BILLINGS, Mont., July 27, 2026 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Friday its plan to reopen the entry port at Douglas, Arizona, within 30 days as part of a phased reopening of the southern border to imports of livestock from Mexico.

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