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The South Dakota Department of Transportation reminds landowners hay remaining in highway ditches needs to be removed. The bales must be removed to ensure road safety in the coming months.

On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Governor Kristi Noem promised South Dakota families the largest tax cut in South Dakota history - eliminating the sales tax on groceries. She made the announcement at Dakota Butcher in Rapid City, surrounded by parents and their children.

The City of Gregory, SD, will be cleaning sanitary sewer mains now through the end of October. These sanitary sewer lines are cleaned using high performance sewer cleaning equipment. A cleaning nozzle is propelled from one manhole to the next using water under high pressure. The nozzle is then pulled back to the starting manhole. As the nozzle is pulled back, water scours the inside of the sanitary sewer pipe. Any debris in the pipe is pulled back with the water. The debris is removed from the manhole with a vacuum unit. This process is repeated on every sewer line cleaned.

The state minimum wage will increase from $9.95/hour to $10.80/ hour effective Jan. 1, 2023.

About 150-200 people gathered to learn more about the Gregory County Pumped Storage Project Monday evening, September 19, at the Jack Broome Community Center in Burke. Scott Pick, general manager of Randall Community Water User District (RCWUD), reiterated how the project will affect the quality of water coming into their intake and will increase the costs to filter it.

The new executive director for the Business and Industrial Development (BID) group has used her first three months to learn, build a network of economic development professionals, and engage with the community. The 2021 strategic plan and the BID board of directors are the guides, with the mission, vision, and value statements charting the course.

As the regular meeting of the Gregory City Council began Monday evening, October 3, 2022, Mayor Al Cerny asked for a moment of silence to honor former city employee for 18 years, Jack Wenger. Fall, Christmas events lining up for the Chamber Gregory/Dallas Chamber of Commerce Director Trenton Seegers thanked the council for approving, in his absence at a previous meeting, the purchase of a banner for the city’s Christmas decorations.

Roxie Chocholousek, fondly known as “Mrs. Coke” to the students at the Gregory School District, has been chosen as the parade marshal for the Homecoming parade, which will begin at 1:00 p.m., Friday, September 30.

Rosebud-Sandhills Right-to-Life has sponsored Dr. Patti Giebink to present the lecture “For Such a Time as This” at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 5, at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium.

RF Buche, president of G.F. Buche Co., has been selected as a featured panelist for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health, September 28th in Washington, D.C.