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If you are looking for some firstrate musical entertainment close to home, look no further than the Gregory High School music department’s Dinner and a Show, a fundraising opportunity that sells an experience rather than a product.

Hannah is trying to finish her science project - a model of the solar system. But there’s a problem: it’s due tomorrow, she’s not finished yet, and it’s past her bedtime. How will she get it done? With a little help from her friends – the most talented troupe in the Milky Way!

Three Gregory High School girls have been selected to participate in this year’s Girls State; Mya Determan and Cindy Khuu will be sponsored by the Gregory Legion Auxiliary, and the Dallas Legion Auxiliary will sponsor Natalie Smith.

The 11th Annual Scavengers Journey has been scheduled for June 23-25, 2023. When it first started years ago, there were only four towns which participated in this annual event: Chamberlain, Oacoma, Pukwana, and Kimball. It is a non-profit organization that began in 2012.

Tuesday Mixed League 03/14/23 Old Pioneer, 189 ½-74½ ; Bailey Welding, 187-77; Fritz’s Angels, 171 ½ -92 ½ ; Tee-Riffic Creations, 127 ½ -136 ½ ; Carlock Babes, 108-156; Wild Bunch, 84 ½ -179 ½ ; Buche’s Bowlers, 79-185; The Outsiders, 51-213; HTG: Bailey Welding, 781; HTS: Bailey Welding, 2254; HIG: Dan Soesbe, 254; Misty Claussen, 175; HIS: Dan Soesbe, 700; Misty Claussen, 471. Splits picked up by: Justin Parkis, 5-7; Goldie Warnkvist, 3-10; Jen Soesbe, 2-7; Kevin Liewer, 6-7; Amy Moeller, 3-7.

The Gregory Economic Development Group (GED) will host the third annual career fair Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at Gregory Memorial Auditorium. Students from Gregory, Burke, and Colome will have an opportunity to visit with representatives from a variety of businesses and schools as they explore career options in or near their hometowns.

In what seems to have become a family tradition, George Johnson, following in the footsteps of his father Charles “Rick” Johnson and grandfather George Fielding Johnson, recently won a high-profile murder trial.

South Dakota’s Republican dominated Legislature passed a general sales tax cut of $104 million per year, lowering the taxes on groceries but not eliminating them entirely as Gov. Kristi Noem had urged.

A Gregory, SD, man has been identified as the person who died early Friday morning in a one-vehicle crash south of Gregory. Preliminary crash information indicates that a 2001 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was eastbound on 302nd Avenue, a half mile west of South Dakota Highway 251 (13 miles south of Gregory), when the vehicle entered the south ditch and rolled.

Spring will officially arrive on Monday, March 20. If you thought the first day of spring was supposed to be March 21, you would be right - some years.