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Elenna Koenig, a sophomore, of Fairfax, SD, was among the students who were named to the Fall 2023 Dean’s List at Doane University. To make the Dean’s List, undergraduate students enrolled on the university’s Crete campus must earn a grade point average of 3.70 or higher in at least 12 graded credits during the semester.

The Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (AFIDA) requires all foreign owners of U.S. agricultural land to report their holdings to the Secretary of Agriculture. Foreign persons who have purchased or sold agricultural land in the county are required to report the transaction to Farm Service Agency within 90 days of the closing. Failure to submit the AFIDA form could result in civil penalties of up to 25 percent of the fair market value of the property. County government offices, realtors, attorneys and others involved in real estate transactions are reminded to notify foreign investors of these reporting requirements.

Former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg last week urged the state Supreme Court to dismiss an effort to suspend his law license, arguing that he took responsibility and acted professionally following a deadly accident with a pedestrian that precipitated his political downfall.

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Superintendent Sara Anderson brought up the fact at the regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education that the current opt-out is expiring this year. For six years the school has used this money to hire three additional teachers to meet the demand of increasing enrollment. The school’s policy is to cap elementary classrooms at 25 students, which Superintendent Anderson estimates will require a fourth teacher be hired to accommodate the fifth grade next year.

The decision on Joseph Yoder’s application for a variance to build a dwelling on a parcel of less than 40 acres (6.21 acres) in an agricultural district was the hot topic at the regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday, February 7.

District 21 legislators were in Gregory Saturday afternoon, February 10, for a cracker barrel, hosted by The Gregory Times-Advocate at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium. About a dozen local residents were on hand to hear from Senator Erin Tobin, Representative Rocky Blare, and Representative Marty Overweg and ask their thoughts on a variety of issues.

MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Law officers from across South Dakota and out of state flashed their emergency lights in unison as hundreds of mourners packed a sports stadium to honor a South Dakota deputy killed in the line of duty.

Every state is a border state. South Dakota is no exception.

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