Published April 03, 2012, 11:06 AM

The Jamestown Sun nabs several AP awards

The Jamestown Sun won two first-place awards in the 2012 Great Plains Associated Press News and Photo Contest for medium-sized dailies.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Jamestown Sun won two first-place awards in the 2012 Great Plains Associated Press News and Photo Contest for medium-sized dailies.

The newspaper made an especially strong showing in the photography categories of the annual contest, winning eight awards of a possible 12. In each of those wins, John Steiner was the photographer.

The Sun's staff also won third place in the editorial category.

The contest was open to 40 AP-member newspapers in three size divisions covering the states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

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