Gunnar Myhre made at least one person among the crowd inside the Stafford Township council chamber cry on Jan. 2, after stepping to the microphone and delivering a short, simple statement directed toward the man sitting directly in front of him.
“I just wanted to thank you, Dad, for being mayor,” he said, then walked back to his seat in the front row, next to siblings Annika and Aksel, as his mother, Amber, teared up. The mayor, Greg Myhre, beamed.
Gunnar wasn’t the only one to take center stage to thank the elder Myhre for his service to Stafford Township during…
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