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independent photo by ken farver Garrett Anderson stands outside City Hall, where he has served as Woodstock’s Economic Development Director for the past nine years. He will become the economic development director for Commerce City, Colorado, on June 24. Danielle Gulli, Woodstock’s executive director of business development, said that she will miss Anderson’s “welcoming nature, can-do attitude, initiative, love of data, and calmness under pressure.”

Economic Development Director Garrett Anderson departs for Colorado job

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Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008, returning to the paper as a writer in 2018. A 26-year resident of Woodstock, she taught English, American history, and religion to junior high students at St. Mary School for nine years.

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