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The Gregory NAPA store has been in the Wendell family for 54 years, but the time has come for Ron and Peg Wendell to pass that baton on to someone else. Martin Tilton started the parts store, and Ron’s father, Delbert, purchased it from him about a year and a half later and rented the building.

Photo Credit: Kristy Ring and the Junior Class Photo Credit: Alexis Kortan Senior Class President Keeley Klein and date Ryder Olsen. Photo Credit: Alexis Kortan Junior Class President Gracie Kenzy and date/escort Trey Murray.

Beginning on April 24, South Dakotans are encouraged to start using 10-digit dialing (605 area code + phone number) to make all local phone calls. This transition is a necessary first step in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) move to establish 988 as a new three-digit dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and will be required beginning as early as October 24, 2021, and no later than July 15, 2022, depending on your telephone provider.

The South Dakota Department of Transportation reminds people that Interstate Highway Right-of-Way Mowing Permits are available for land that abuts Interstate 90 or Interstate 29. Landowners or tenants of land abutting I-90 or I-29 are eligible to apply for Interstate Highway Right-of-Way Mowing Permits.

The Wanblee Mart has been sold to RF Buche, who owns a small chain of Buche Foods and Gus Stop Convenience Stores. Buche will take over on April 28th, 2021. “The store will be closed on the 28th for inventory, team member orientations and other misc. tasks so our customers are not inconvenienced. However, the store will open back up on Thursday, April 29th for ordinary business and we look forward to meeting our customers,” said RF Buche.

The U.K. variant is expected to become the dominant strain of the coronavirus in South Dakota, according to the state’s epidemiologist.

The South Dakota State Square, Folk, and Round Dance Association Festival scheduled for Saturday, May 1, 2021 with the trail-in dance on Friday, April 30, 2021. Dave Schulz from Wisconsin was to be the featured caller.

The Constitution doesn’t always use plain language, but when it comes to our right to defend ourselves, the Second Amendment is quite straightforward: “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

In the early morning hours of March 14, Gregory Police Officer Tom Grove was dispatched to the bowling alley in response to an altercation which left a woman passed out and bleeding from her head. The victim, Callie Beck, had been knocked off her chair by Echo McSweeney, who then slammed her head on the floor, knocking her unconscious.

WD; Richard and Lorna Whiting, a married couple, to Jerry Dean and Lorraine Elizabeth Salonen, a married couple, JT WROS NTIC, Lots 3, 4, and 5 of Block 23, Gregory Town. Short Form Contract; Gregory Business and Industrial Development Corporation, a nonprofit corporation to Dawn Waldner, a married person, Lot 1, Block 3, Grandview Addition, Gregory; less N 20’ in NW4NE4 of S12-T97-R73.