Petitions delivered to move county seat to Eagle Butte

Carl Petersen of Parade hand delivered petitions proposing to move the Dewey County seat from Timber Lake to Eagle Butte to the Dewey County Commissioners at their July 7 meeting.

To get a county seat move on the ballot, the law requires that a petition be signed by 15% of the registered voters of the county, based on the total number of registered voters in the last preceding general election. In …