Dear editor, Who is wounded when the ACA subsidies are allowed to lapse? The ones who really make America great will be most wounded. In South Dakota, that’s farmers and ranchers, people who live in small towns, small business owners and their employees, caregivers, daycare providers.

Secretary of Corrections Nick Lamb is alerting law enforcement and the public about the pending release of an offender deemed to be a high risk to reoffend. Offender Richie Desersa is scheduled to be released from prison to suspended sentence supervision on December 3, 2025.

The final step in harvesting the grain was threshing. This was the busiest time of the year on the farm. Someone in the neighb orhood who owned a threshing machine would hire a crew of men and go from farm to farm to thresh. Often the threshing crew was made up of family and neighbors. The crew might be made up of from 10 to 30 men. Each farm’s threshing usually took two to four days if the weather was good.

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At the regular meeting of the Gregory City Council, held at 6 p.m., Monday, December 1, 2025, at City Hall, City Finance Officer Trudy Waterman reported that the city’s sales tax revenue is currently $836,637.96, 5% over budget. Even better, the third-cent sales tax revenue is $57,195.88, 51% over what was budgeted. Property tax revenue, however, at $373,033.23, is down by 10%, or $41,966.77.

Tribute Quartet is returning to the Prairie View Gospel Barn for a matinee Christmas concert on Sunday, December 7, 2025. Since 2006, multi-award winning and multi-Dove Award nominated recording group Tribute Quartet has become one of the country’s most dynamic, beloved, and soughtafter male quartets in all of gospel music.