Access to affordable childcare is a crisis across the state and nation, and our local communities are experiencing many of the same difficulties. In strong and quick collaboration with economic development folks from Bonesteel and Gregory, the Burke Business Promotion Corporation applied for and was awarded a grant from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development to study childcare in Gregory County.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has joined 24 other state Attorneys General in filing an amicus brief challenging a California law that would ban firearm magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds.

The Burke/Gregory Storm wrestlers finished sixth out of 17 teams in Miller at the Bob Lager Invitational Tournament on Saturday, January 6, with ten of the 14 wrestlers who went competing as varsity. The team is still missing their 175 pounder and one of their 120 pounders. Coach Webster is looking forward to getting them healed and having a full team back on the mat.

Gregory 30 - AC/DC 64 The Gregory girls basketball team started the New Year on the road at Lake Andes on January 2. Gregory trailed 7-13 after the first quarter and 15-31 at halftime.

Quietly, on September 29, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission, at the request of the New York Stock Exchange, proposed a rule to create a new type of company called a Natural Asset Company (NAC). According to the proposed rule, a NAC would “hold the rights to ecological performance,” giving these companies license to control the management of both public and private lands through quantifying and monetizing natural outputs such as air and water. In other words, NACs would use the air you breathe as currency.

The Gregory Gorillas returned home after five road games and defeated the Lyman Raiders on Thursday, January 4, 2024, by a score of 72-44. The Gorillas jumped on the young Lyman Raiders immediately, and never looked back.