Mitchell Republic seeking nominations for annual Person of Year honor

The Daily Republic, Mitchell, S.D.
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Nov. 29—MITCHELL — The Mitchell Republic is seeking nominations from readers for its annual Person of the Year award.

The award will be presented to the person who is judged to have had the most impact on Mitchell or the Mitchell area (anywhere the Mitchell Republic print edition is circulated) during the 2023 calendar year.

Nomination letters may be sent to Luke Hagen, editor, at

dailynews@mitchellrepublic.com

with "Person of the Year" in the subject line, or mailed to his attention at The Daily Republic, P.O. Box 1288, Mitchell, SD, 57301.

The deadline for nominations is Dec. 23. The selection will be presumably announced in the Jan. 6, 2024, edition of the Mitchell Republic.

Past winners of the Mitchell Republic's person of the year award

2013:

Ken Tracy, Mitchell mayor

2014:

Wessington Springs tornado first responders

2015:

Gary Gjesdal, of Plankinton

2016:

Lyndon Overweg, Mitchell public safety chief

2017:

Julie Brookbank, Mitchell Technical Institute

2018:

Gary Van Roekel, of Mitchell

2019:

South Dakota farmers

2020:

Health care heroes

2021:

Hugh Holmes, of Mitchell

2022:

Martin Christensen, of Mitchell