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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Gannett |
| Founded | March 27, 1887 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 120 Third Avenue NW, Watertown, South Dakota 57201 United States |
| Circulation | 9,336(as of 2015) [1] |
| Website | thepublicopinion.com |
The Watertown Public Opinion is published in Watertown, South Dakota, United States, serving eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota. The fourth largest newspaper in South Dakota publishes in the afternoon, Tuesday through Friday.
Founded two years before South Dakota 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 (UCC) March 1, 2002.
In 2016, it was sold by United Communications to Schurz Communications out of South Bend, IN. [2] It was sold again in 2019 to GateHouse Media. [3]
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 works of Terry Redlin, one of the nation's most popular wildlife artists. Watertown is between Pelican Lake and Lake Kampeska, from which Redlin derived inspiration for his artwork.
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