Acquisitions

The Hunter family has sold The Madison (S.D.) Leader to Wick Communications, a thirdgeneration family-owned and operated media company based in Sierra Vista, Ariz. The

Daily Leader started as The Lake County Leader, a weekly newspaper, in 1880. It was converted to a daily a decade later. George Hunter bought the newspaper in 1947. The Leader is the second newspaper in the state of South Dakota for Wick, which also owns the Pierre

Capital Journal. Dirks, Van Essen & April represented the Hunter family in the transaction.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.