SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Crooks City Council took action Monday to avoid what mayor Butch Oseby called the “Smithfield surprise.”
Smithfield announced in February it would build a new pork processing plant in northwestern Sioux Falls in Foundation Park. The location is not far from the city limits of Crooks.
Multiple Crooks and Crooks area residents dislike the Smithfield location as well as some city officials who have expressed disappointment and frustration with what they said was a lack of communication by the city of Sioux Falls…