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A group of high school students showed up to the regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education, held at 5 p.m., Monday, March 9, 2026, to shine a spotlight on some of the work they have been doing in woods class. Ryler Stevicks started out, describing the most recent project that he and a number of other students completed for the community weight room.

As we celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States, the Gregory Times-Advocate is featuring a column periodically to recount key events and people that led to our country’s independence. In the last installment (February 18), we discussed the French and Indian War, also known as the global Seven Years War.

Legacy Five is making a return appearance at the Prairie View Gospel Barn at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 15, 2026. When the Legendary Cathedral Quartet retired in December of 1999, Scott Fowler and Roger Bennett decided to continue the rich musical tradition of Southern Gospel Quartet singing.

The Gregory and Dallas American Legion Auxiliaries have chosen four Gregory High School girls from the junior class—Lainey Dobson, Claire Engel, Naomi Hanson, and Tamara Imhof—to attend this year’s ALA Girls State to be held May 24-28, 2026 at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.

On Monday, March 2, 2026, former State Senator Erin Tobin announced she has officially qualified for the Republican Primary ballot in the District 21 Senate race after submitting the required number of petition signatures. Those signatures have now been certified by the Secretary of State.

Funeral services to be held for Julia Watts, 37 Funeral services Julia (Songer) Watts, age 37, of Vermillion, SD, will be held on Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., at the Winner/Ideal Community Hall, in Winner, SD. Burial in the Winner Cemetery. The wake services will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the Winner/Ideal Community Hall on Thursday and Friday evenings.

Commentary by Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA Beef is the centerpiece of today’s discussion about consumer affordability. You’ve probably heard that today’s high beef prices are the result of a recent widespread drought that reduced the size of the domestic cattle herd, and the recent closure of the Mexican border due to the threat of New World screwworm that deprived the U.S. of previously available foreign cattle supplies. This combination is said to have reduced overall beef supplies in the face of strong beef demand, resulting in all-time record beef prices.

Bridget Williams gathered a group of children together in her barn to show them how to safely give a horse a treat. Williams told them not to hold the treat near the horse’s mouth because it can’t see the snack and could mistakenly bite a finger.

After three days with no county law enforcement, Boyd County has a new sheriff. Matt McHale, a longtime law enforcement officer who most recently worked as an investigator and deputy in Holt County, was appointed Boyd County sheriff by unanimous decision by the Boyd County Board of Supervisors during an emergency meeting on Friday, February 27, 2026.

The Gregory HOPE Squad Chapter celebrated HOPE Week February 16th-20th. The theme of the week was to share Hope and Kindness schoolwide. CONNECT and Gregory/Dallas Chamber assisted in sponsoring prizes and Kindness Kookies. The Gregory HOPE Squad is a peer-to-peer suicide prevention team that has been elected by their school peers to be advocates of suicide prevention and to be available in times of need for others at the Gregory School District.