The regular meeting of the Gregory County Board of Commissioners was held at 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at the Gregory County Courthouse. The minutes of the December 29, 2021, meeting were amended to reflect a change of venue for the weed department supervisor training, which will be held in Huron, and to change the date for bid letting for the courthouse parking lot/curb and gutter to March 1, 2022, because of corrections to bid specifications.

Battling cancer is difficult. Losing hair, nausea from chemo treatments, and fatigue are just a few of the physical side effects, but cancer takes a toll emotionally as well. Knowing that someone understands or is thinking about you can go a long way toward easing emotions.

On Friday, January 21, the South Dakota Department of Health (SD-DOH) began operations to promptly and efficiently distribute one million Flowflex® COVID-19 antigen home tests to sites across the state. The first batch of 187,500 FDA-authorized tests kits arrived in Pierre, and were sorted and shipped to destinations both East and West River, prioritizing longterm care facilities statewide.