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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.

The annual District 3 fall meeting of the South Dakota American Legion will be held Sunday, September 29, 2024, in Miller, SD, for Legionnaires from Hughes, Hyde, Potter, Stanley, Sully, Gregory, Lyman, Tripp and Hand counties.

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Al's Oasis, the South Dakota travel landmark just off I-90 at Oacoma, will soon have its restaurant operated by G.F. Buche Company, a South Dakota retailer since 1905. The company purchased the Al's Oasis complex in 2022, opening a Buche Foods grocery store in the facility while leasing the popular restaurant to an independent operator.

September 16, 2024 For the week ending September 15, 2024, there were 6.6 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture supplies rated 20% very short, 33% short, 46% adequate, and 1% surplus.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley warns residents impacted by the flooding in southeast South Dakota to be careful about flood-related scams involving fraudulent home repairs and charity appeals.

In comments submitted to the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), R-CALF USA, America’s largest organization exclusively representing independent cattle producers, emphasized strong support of the agency’s “Fair and Competitive Livestock and Poultry Markets” proposed rule.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced that the South Dakota Forensic Lab has identified a DNA sample that was collected from an attempted rape in 2022 that occurred in South Dakota, and which has now allowed the case to be reopened.