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Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative members can vote on 2026 cooperative business online or by mail beginning Aug. 10 until Sept. 22. Voting will also occur at the cooperative’s 74th Annual Meeting to be held Saturday, Sept. 26, at 10 a.m. at the Community Center in Wall.

Claudia Shaffer read a letter from Karley Arizmendis during the public input portion of the regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education, held at 7 p.m., Monday, August 10, 2026. In it, Arizmendis said that the school could utilize existing staff to create a crisis team and requested the board create a team along with protocol for situations involving weapon-related threats against students. She cited FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) regulations which allow school officials to disclose personally-identifiable information without parental consent in certain situations.

Come and celebrate Prairie View Gospel Barn’s 50th concert with Gold City Quartet, the most awarded quartet in gospel music history, at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, August 16.

For Jo and Dan Petty, it’s clear they were meant to break down in Reliance, SD and be ‘stuck’ in Gregory for ten days. The Petty couple, who reside in Woodstock, GA, also claim residence to a twenty-seven foot Airstream called Gracie. Thanks to Gracie, which the Petty’s purchased in 2022, they have traveled across the country having adventures, and impacting lives in a way that would make most politicians jealous. On this particular road trip, the Pettys ‘plan’ was to cross the state of South Dakota and spend a few days visiting Ellsworth Airforce Base, Custer, and Sturgis. That was to be followed by a stop in North Dakota, completing the Pettys’ travels through all 48 continuous states in Gracie. Those plans were quickly scrapped on August 1, when a tire on Gracie became extraordinarily hot, causing the Pettys to pull over in Reliance. An axle had broken and only an authorized Dexter dealer would be able to replace it. Phone calls were made to dealers in the area, but no one was answering that late Saturday afternoon.

Several men in Burke are sporting new, or more accurately, no hairstyles these days. During Dog Days in Burke, a fundraiser was held for Lynndi Kahler, daughter of Brandon and Katie Kahler.

After a prolonged, difficult labor, Brian Thomas Gallagher was born at 7:42 a.m., June 16, 1982. He was pronounced dead at 8:25 a.m.

It was over three years ago that R-CALF USA began working with western sheep producers to identify solutions with which to reverse the long-term contraction of America’s sheep industry. And now, three years later, the solutions we identified are coming to fruition.

Enrollment Ends August 15 Pierre, S.D.- The South Dakota Departments of Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) and Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR) want to remind South Dakota landowners to register for assistance with prairie dog encroachment. The deadline for enrollment is August 15.

You’ll recall that it was seven years ago this spring, in 2019, when R-CALF USA and four of its cattlefeeding members filed a national class-action antitrust lawsuit against the four largest beef packers: Tyson, JBS, Cargill and National Beef, which is now majority owned by Brazil-based Marfrig.