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A special meeting of the Gregory City Council was held at 6:00 p.m., Monday, May 10, 2021, at City Hall. The council met in executive session to review applications for the position of City Administrator/Finance Officer.

Gregg Drees, Co-Executive Director of the Business and Industrial Development Group (BID), retired from his position in the first quarter of 2021, leaving Rick Messerschmidt as the sole director. Doug Pochop will remain on the board in the position of Past President.

The regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners was held at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, May 4, 2021, at the Gregory County Courthouse. Even more government money is coming After opening the meeting, the commissioners listened in on a Zoom meeting by the National Association of Counties in which the speaker provided some information as to what counties may expect from the American Rescue Plan, which was signed into law on March 11.

The 2021 Gregory High School senior class has chosen JoAnna Lanz as the keynote speaker for commencement exercises at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium, Saturday, May 15, at 2:00 p.m. JoAnna Lanz has been teaching kindergarten for 13 years at the Gregory School.

The regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education was held at 4:30 p.m., Monday, May 10, 2021, in the school library. The change from the normal time of 5:30 was because of the awards program scheduled later that evening.

May 1, 2021 was the 105 year of the Maypole winding at the Dallas American Legion. Those in attendance to wind the pole were Kaelynn Rezac, Tristian Wheeler, Charissa Ring, Maya Hull, Savanah Lozano, Marisa Fischer, Cierra Bordeaux, Ava Schweigert, Tyce Schweigert, George Timanus, Jake Fischer, Rosin Brozik, Otto Reber, Biden Wahl, Urijah Gonzales, Braylon Stevicks. There were also many butterflies and bees welcoming in spring before the winders took the floor. (Submitted photo)

On Saturday, May 8, 227 students will graduate from Northern State University in Aberdeen at its 2021 spring commencement to begin at 10:00 a.m. in the NSU Barnett Center.

“The General Store” (Ace Hardware and Lumber store) in Martin, SD has been sold to RF Buche and will take over on May 18th, 2021. Buche plans to keep the store running regular hours through the transition so customers are not affected.

(Photos by Kristi Ring).

Band director, Jared Opp, presented the John Phillip Sousa band award and Louie Armstrong jazz award to senior Samantha Timanus during the spring music concert on Thursday, April 29, 2021. (Photos by Alexis Kortan.)