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The Ball Brothers are returning to town for another concert at the Prairie View Gospel Barn on Thursday, September 9, at 7:00 p.m. The Ball Brothers are two brothers, Andrew and Daniel Ball, brother-in-law Chad McCloskey, and newcomer Rhett Roberts, who travel throughout the world singing their distinctive brand of Christian music.

Amber Kelly is the newest addition to the Gregory Police Department. A 2006 Gregory High School graduate, Kelly says that she has wanted to be in law enforcement since she was a kid. Her career since graduating has been in security and corrections work. “I couldn’t think of a better position than the one I’m in now to go ahead and do that,” she said of becoming a police officer.

The sixth annual fundraiser event for the Avera Area Foundation was held at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium on Saturday, August 28, 2021. The fundraiser is held annually to entice individuals through scholarships to return to the Avera Gregory facilities with their talent for future position within the system. The night was full of food, games, and plenty of items to bid on in the live and silent auctions.

Gregory’s own Marathon Man, Wade Juracek, is pushing his body to its limits this fall with three marathons on his schedule. He had already planned on running the Sioux Falls Marathon the last weekend of August, just because, and the Mid-City Marathon in Rochester, MN, two weeks later because he wanted to visit the city once without having surgery, when he got a call to run the Boston Marathon in October.

The Business and Industrial Development Group’s (BID) second quarter focus was on updating their strategic plan and providing financial help to the local business community through the USDA Revolving Loan Fund and original revolving loan fund.

The head of the South Dakota National Guard said Wednesday, August 18, that Gov. Kristi Noem didn’t tell him she would use a private donation for the deployment to the U.S. border with Mexico until after the mission was already planned.

DEATHS Jerry Shutt, 79 years, July 21, 2021, Cheyenne, WY. Howard Henry Hogrefe, 95 years, June 22, 2021, Butte, NE.

Curt Curr pulled a radish out of his garden last week and the root measured 31”. A good sign of how far down vegetables, plants and weeds will go to hit the water table..

It’s Wednesday, August 18 as I write this, and I see that we added 348 more COVID cases yesterday in South Dakota. This virus sneaks up on us and has the creative ability to mutate and thus remain difficult to thoroughly defeat. And frankly, it is taking a toll on us psychologically and relationally in ways we could not have anticipated or imagined just 18 months ago. It clearly has the upper hand.

A federal judge ruled on Friday, August 20, against South Dakota’s attempt to lift a decadeold injunction that nullified part of a state law requiring women to consult with a crisis pregnancy center before having an abortion.