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South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has released a draft ballot explanation for a proposed initiated measure that would repeal South Dakota’s medical marijuana program. The measure is proposed by Travis Ismay of Newell.

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Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) Treasurer and Rosebud Sioux Tribal Councilwoman Lisa White Pipe spent a busy week in Geneva, Switzerland for the 16th session of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Treasurer White Pipe offered three specific interventions: 1. A call on the United States to immediately return Federal Indian Boarding School lands to tribes consistent with Articles 10 and 11 of the UN Declaration.

The finishing touches were put in place in the new hospital/nursing home chapel in Gregory, on Tuesday, July 25, as stained glass windows were installed. Stained glass artist Michael Pilla and his assistant Jim Colvin brought the windows from Pilla’s studio in Wisconsin.

The Palle and Hanne Miliam family almost missed their chance to experience a Gregory Independence Day celebration when the airplane crew’s working hours restrictions stranded them in Toronto for a couple days. They were on their way to spend a few weeks visiting the family of Sara Anderson, who had hosted their oldest son Thomas as a foreign exchange student during the 2015-16 school year. He had joined Sara’s family when his host family moved to another town and he was faced with possibly being sent back to Denmark.

Stephanie Pochop of Johnson Pochop & Bartling Law Office in Gregory was named South Dakota Trial Lawyer of the Year at the annual meeting of the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association (SDTLA) on June 22 during the State Bar Convention.

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Approximately 240 elementary and middle school educators began a week-long trek today, to explore the people, places, and events that figure prominently in South Dakota history. One group of teachers departed Sioux Falls for an East River history tour, while another left Rapid City for a West River tour.

Some late-night revelers on Saturday trashed an area of Burke Lake by the wheelchair accessible walk-out fishing dock. Beer cans, broken alcohol and liquor bottles, and other garbage, including a pair of shorts and a sock, lay strewn throughout the grass and on the pavement, in spite of having a garbage can conveniently located nearby. The middle of the road also shows a large burn mark where a bonfire had been lit.

A group of South Dakota lawmakers has begun circulating a petition in hopes of forcing a special session to protect private property rights against the developers of a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline.