After the Bronco fundraiser, a matching pledge challenge up to $200,000 was issued, beginning July 9. Since that time, various fundraisers have been held, and the total amount of money toward the matching funds is currently at $42,538.00.

Commodity truck to be in Gregory in January The commodity truck will be at the Gregory Memorial Auditorium parking lot and community room on Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Senator Mykala Voita District 21 Aurora, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Tripp Counties Committee: Appropriations Capitol Address: 500 E. Capitol Ave.

Public Education Funding in South Dakota Educational funding for public schools in South Dakota is governed by state law. Specifically, Section 13-13-10.1(5) of the South Dakota Codified Laws outlines how annual funding increases are determined: The “Index factor” is the annual percentage change in the consumer price index (CPI-W) for urban wage earners and clerical workers, as computed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This article serves as a rebuttal to the article “Education Savings Accounts: Empowering Parents, Enhancing Education” recently written by Dr. Graves, South Dakota’s Secretary of Education. Instead of crafting an article lifting up the amazing work our public schools do every day, he penned an article that sounded more like a surrender note.

There were few towns and post offices in the Dakota Territory in 1870. The number had made a small increase in ten years. A traveler coming into the territory from Sioux City and crossing the Big Sioux River on the Government Bridge would journey a distance of twenty miles to Elk Point before reaching a town, though a post office had been established at Jefferson, eight miles east of the Point, on the stage road.