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Watertown, South Dakota Watertown is a city in and the county seat of Codington County, South Dakota, United States. Watertown is home to the Redlin Art Center which houses many of the original art works produced by Terry Redlin, one of America's most popular wildlife ...
, United States, serving eastern
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and western
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. The fourth largest newspaper in South Dakota publishes in the afternoon, Tuesday through Friday.


History

Founded two years before
South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large porti ...
statehood, the ''Public Opinion'' in its first 110 years had a succession of local owners, including Stitzel X. Way, whose family ran it for 94 years before selling to Kenosha WI based
United Communications Corporation United Communications Corporation (UCC) was a privately owned operator of three television stations in the U.S. states of Minnesota and New York. The company was the publisher of the '' Kenosha News'' of Kenosha, Wisconsin and two other daily new ...
(UCC) March 1, 2002. In 2016, it was sold by United Communications to
Schurz Communications Schurz Communications is a South Bend, Indiana-based broadband media group and cloud services provider. It owned newspapers. History The company was founded in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett with the creation of the ''South Bend ...
out of
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. It was sold again in 2019 to GateHouse Media.


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* Newspapers published in South Dakota Codington County, South Dakota Watertown, South Dakota Gannett publications {{SouthDakota-newspaper-stub