Every ten years following the federal decennial census, all federal, state, and local election district boundaries must be redrawn or revised. Redistricting begins when the new census data is delivered to the states, and 2021 was the year to accomplish this goal to meet our constitutional requirements. After receiving census data, we found that we needed to have close to 25,333 voters in each of the 35 legislative districts. Plans were then made to set out to accomplish this.

In March of 2020, the South Dakota Legislature passed Senate Bill 55 which required the Board of Regents to assemble a task force to examine possible program and administrative efficiencies at the six public universities. Their examination was to specifically include the following:

Gregory High School students had another successful day of oral interpretation. The students in readers theatre, poetry, storytelling, and humorous performed well at regions and are going to state. The students are shown above, back row, l to r: Dakota Timanus, Jaden Graber, Eli Barreto, Christian Spann, Anna Dargatz, and Gracie Kenzy. Front row: Ravyn Oliver and Nancy Khuu.

The regular meeting of the Gregory City Council was held at 6:00 p.m., Monday, November 15, 2021, at City Hall. Library is cooking up some fun new programs Librarian Tara Engel is working on accreditation and another grant for $2500 to help fund some performers for next summer’s reading program.

Dozens of vocalists and musicians participated in the South Dakota High School Activities Association’s 69th annual South Dakota all-state chorus and orchestra performance on Oct. 30 at Summit Arena at The Monument complex.

The regular meeting of the Gregory School District Board of Education was held at 5:30 p.m., Monday, November 15, 2021, at the high school. It’s all Greek to me Caitlin Kurtz was the bearer of “Gorilla Good News” at the meeting, talking about the Greece trip in 2023 that she is lining up for students currently in grades 8-12.