Message from the Mayor
I’ve had the same dream twice in the last two months.
I’m hearing about a Panther basketball game that went into triple overtime. For some reason, it was against Thermopolis and it was a wild game. The weird part about the dream is that I wasn’t there.
Since 1980, I have only missed a couple of Panther games. Once, in 1998, I chickened out of a football game in Jackson because of a winter storm. This last January, I missed out on a game in Worland that I knew would be a blowout. The girl’s game was close but as predicted, the boy’s game was very lopsided. Right after that game, one of the parents asked me if I was going to broadcast the next weekend’s game, which was at home.
I felt very low.
That triple overtime thriller dream is more of a nightmare for me. You see, I was hired to do those games by Art Brooks and Bill Mack. I pride myself in making those dangerous Wyoming trips, even as they continue to grow in mileage over some ugly mountain passes. Every football and basketball games on the air during every season.
The reason I missed that last game in January was because of the legislative session and I was doing City of Powell work. The conflict came up and I was given a choice that now results in me losing sleep.
There are many reasons that I took this mayor’s job and, in the most part, I have accomplished them.
It’s now time to move on and move back.
I have decided that I will not run for mayor of Powell this year.
I have always been an advocate for term-limits and I think that the mayor’s job is a good example. There are some people in the municipalities of Wyoming who have been in office for over two decades. I admire their public service but I still question if they are fresh in their ideas.
I look forward to hearing some new ideas from the new guy, or gal, in charge. That’s right; city government is for women, too!
It will be different for me in the coming year but I must start concentrating on the business that pays my bills. We may see some big changes at the radio station and I don’t want to be out of town when it happens.
Unless it’s a Panther game of course.
Scott Mangold
Mayor
City of Powell
mayormangold@cityofpowell.com
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