Editor’s Note: Sen. John Thune’s recent stop in Timber Lake reminded us of the time the Topic editors talked him into helping with our (first and only) April Fool’s edition. The front page on April 1, 1999 was entirely “fake news” (before the phrase was commonly known). Page 3 announced that it was all in good fun. Here is the story about Sen. Thune.
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