More than 2,300 students at the University of South Dakota are being honored for their high achievement during the fall 2022 semester. Full-time undergraduate students are named to the dean’s list if they received a 3.5 GPA for courses they took in the fall 2022 semester, and had no incomplete or failing grades.

Area newspapers and law enforcement personnel during the later part of the 1800s and the earliest part of the 1900s reported on the activities of those who were suspected or participated in the theft of livestock on the open range. The following tells of one of those rustlers who lived on the Rosebud: “This region (Charles Mix County) was infested by a tough gang of horse thieves and cutthroats in an early day. Hartrett and Henry Hyer were hung in La-Roche Township in 1871.” It is not known if Jack Sully was involved in rustling with these two individuals; however, it was reported that “Among those who enjoyed this hanging bee are said to have been William Kinkaid, Jack Sully, Bill Cunningham, and others.”

oem South Dakota’s economy has been thriving over the past few years, but even though our unemployment rate in 2022 was the lowest it’s been in our state’s history, we still have 23,000 open jobs in our state. These are growing pains, and we’re tackling them head-on.

Senator Erin Tobin District 21 Aurora, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Tripp Counties Committees: Chair of Health & Human Services, Executive Board, Agriculture and Natural Resources, State Affairs Capitol Address: 500 E. Capitol Ave.

The search was lengthy, but the Berean Fundamental Church has found a new pastor. Andrew Chlebek began his ministry in Gregory the end of November, having moved to the area from Illinois where he was a youth pastor in a small town about a half hour from Champaign.

The regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education was held at 5:30, Tuesday, January 10, 2023, in the high school conference room. Board has one month to look over audit Business Manager Kevin Myrmoe distributed a copy of the audit he received in December.