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Council shows support for next city administrator BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR
LINO LAKES — Knowing that City Administrator Jeff Karlson plans to retire in 2020, the City Council took action to show its support for who it feels should fi ll his shoes. At the Aug. 12 meeting, the council passed a resolution granting Finance Director Sarah Cotton a conditional offer to succeed Karlson upon his retirement,
which he says will be sometime in the summer of 2020. “It is not the customary way of anointing somebody to replace someone, but after Sarah had been working here a couple years, I was able to see how professional she was and how she picked up on things rather quickly. I came to the conclusion that she would make a really good city administrator,” Karlson said in a follow-up interview.
A couple of years ago, Karlson said he sat down with Cotton to ask her whether she ever saw herself becoming a city administrator/manager, or if she planned to stay in the fi nance world. Cotton said she had thought about it, and Karlson recommended that she go back to school to obtain a master's degree in public administration. That's exactly what she did. Sarah Cotton
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Back when Matt and Erin Ribar of Centerville were still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. This photo was taken back in 2011, the first year the couple brought Duke’s Poutine to the State Fair.
Fair in the family BY SHANNON GRANHOLM EDITOR
Centerville resident Matt Ribar, who is 32, has never missed a State Fair. “I was in my mom's belly at the fair and even when I went off to school in Arizona for a year, I came back for Labor Day weekend to go,” he said. The 2005 White Bear grad has fond memories of the Great Minnesota GetTogether as well as other state fairs and festivals. Ribar's father, Brad Ribar of White Bear Township, has owned the Corn Roast concession at the State Fair for 34 years. BILL JACOBSON | SUBMITTED
Red, white and Blue Heron Days
The 16th annual Blue Heron Days was held Aug. 16-18 and featured a Movie in the Park, Grand Parade, business/vendor expo, inflatables, bands and more. See more photos on page 20.
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