In frontier days on the Northern Plains, a wedding was almost always followed by a shivaree, and the custom was still followed in the middle 1900s. It usually took place at dusk or later, on the day of the wedding, or sometime in the evening of the next day, at the new home of the couple.

During the Gorilla Good News portion of the Gregory School District Board of Education’s regular meeting on Monday, May 12, 2025, Mrs. Baldwin and several of her students presented a sampling of the various art projects completed during the 2024-25 school year. The students learned about perspectives, negative creations, technical drawing, hieroglyphs, making frescoes, carving, and other techniques. Many projects were on display for the board to view in the school lunch room.

Delayed Postal Service deliveries of small-town newspapers are frustrating readers, undermining subscriptions and hurting advertising revenue, according to publishers across South Dakota. “It’s taking nine days to get a paper from Armour to Sioux Falls,” said Julie Hinckley of Rocket Printing, which prints several small-town publications.

Lonnie Klundt is a proud alumnus of Gregory High School, Class of 1985, and a 1990 graduate of the University of South Dakota. A dedicated educator and coach, Lonnie currently serves as the Title I math teacher at Gregory Middle School, where he continues to impact young lives daily through both academics and athletics.

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Charlie Johnson has organized a big fundraiser for the Dallas Fire Department on Friday evening, May 16, 2025, from 7:00 p.m. to midnight, at the Cocktail Lodge and former minimart on the service road in Dallas, next to Cody’s and Frank Days Bar/Rumors.