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Farmers Union hosted a day camp in Gregory, on June 5, 2025. Youth spent the afternoon learning about the history of Cooperatives through games and interactive lessons. They played games, made crafts, and learned about renewable and nonrenewable resources. Campers were all given a canvas with either a windmill, a wave, the sun, and a plant on it that they were able to decorate using glue and yarn as this year’s craft. All campers received a T-shirt. For more information on youth activities visit: http://www.sdfu. org/education/youth-programs-/ youth-camps.

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The start of summer brings a sense of excitement for many teens. Take a moment to reflect back to your teen years. As we reminisce, we can likely all say that our adolescent years were a unique and informative time of our life. Mental wellbeing habits are often formed during this time as teens strengthen their social and emotional skills, laying a foundation of habits for the rest of their life. Consider what habits you perhaps formed during this time and what supports you had or needed when you were a teen.

The regular meeting of the Gregory City Council was held Monday, June 2, 2025. Color Our World includes Painting the Town The summer reading program, Color Our World, kicked off at the library earlier in the day.

JMe Braun has accepted the role as the new director for the Gregory/ Dallas Chamber of Commerce. A familiar face to many, JMe is the daughter of Dr.

At Monday evening’s city council meeting, Public Works Superintendent Guhner Kepler discussed an issue with a sewer main that occurred at 9:30 on a Saturday night that took until 1:00 a.m. to resolve because of a tennis shoe in a sewer main. The crew also pulled out some tree roots and blue shop towels.

A construction meeting for Phase I of the city’s infrastructure project was held May 28, 2025. The sanitary sewer has been installed on Felton Avenue between 5th and 7th streets. They are now continuing north on Felton.

A Burke man who faked his own kidnapping and later violated a protection order while armed has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple felony charges stemming from two separate incidents in 2023 and 2024.

Who is the oldest person you know in South Dakota? Each year, the South Dakota Health Care Association’s (SDHCA) Century Club seeks to find the answer! If you know of a current living South Dakotan born before January 29, 1916, making this person at least 109 years young, he or she may be our state’s oldest living person! SDHCA would like to honor him or her with the 2025 Centenarian of the Year award. If you are aware of anyone living in South Dakota that was born before January 29, 1916, please reach out to LuAnnSeverson@sdhca.org at your earliest opportunity! In addition, any South Dakotan aged 100 or older is eligible to be recognized as part of SDHCA’s Century Club.

On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Kathleen Wooden Knife declared a state of emergency on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Reservation. Stating that the tribe has, and continues to, experience “severe and pervasive law and order and public health issues related to the epidemic of meth and illicit drug use, drug trafficking, and gunrelated violence and other violent and unlawful activity creating severe and extreme threats to public safety, and the health and welfare of the general public,” she has called upon the United States Government, the U.S.