The ''Daily Plainsman'', also referred to as the ''Plainsman'', is a

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Huron, South Dakota Huron is a city in Beadle County, South Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Beadle County. The '' Huron Daily Plainsman'', also referred to as the ''Plainsman'', is the newspaper. The first settlement at Huron was made in 1880. The ci ...

. The paper is owned by the

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. It started operation in 1886 and is still in production.

History

The ''Huron Plainsman'' started as the ''Daily Huronite'' on January 3, 1886. It ran with four to six pages per edition. Being locally owned for almost 100 years, the owners sold the paper to Freedom Newspapers in 1980, which ran it for the next ten years, when they sold to the ''

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'' in 1990. The Omaha paper sold it along with other papers in South Dakota to

in 1998.November 11, 2000, edition on Huron Plainsman

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' website Newspapers published in South Dakota Huron, South Dakota Publications established in 1886 1886 establishments in Dakota Territory {{SouthDakota-newspaper-stub