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Emails in 2020 from Mayor Andy Beerman provide further details about the controversial social justice murals put on Main Street that summer.

Readers sound off on the Park City elections, as well as the two bond measures put before voters in Summit County.

Tom Clyde writes that leaders must view the Wasatch Back as a single urban area. “We need to quit managing things along parochial jurisdictional lines that have long ago been stomped out, and begin managing this as the mid-sized city that it is.”

With Election Day approaching on Nov. 2, The Park Record asked the two Park City mayoral candidates, incumbent Mayor Andy Beerman and City Councilor Nann Worel, to answer a series of questions in their own words on a range of topics important to voters.

The two Park City mayoral contenders on Thursday evening briefly addressed the closely related issues of drought and the threat of wildfires, offering broad comments about the subject during a forum that was centered on environmental issues.

Former City Councilor Joe Kernan says the current roster of elected officials has been successful. He encourages voters to keep Andy Beerman in the mayor’s office while continuing to benefit from Nann Worel on the City Council.

A land acknowledgment statement, something that is designed to highlight the history of the American Indians who inhabited the continent prior to the arrival of Europeans in the New World, was read prior to Park City political events at the library.

The Park City mayoral and City Council elections continue to be a hot topic in our letters to the editor.

“There seems to be a general sentiment that the races for City Council and mayor have gotten ugly, personal even — pitting neighbor against neighbor. If this is true, I’m happily oblivious,” writes Amy Roberts.

The two Park City mayoral candidates on Monday appeared together at an election forum that covered an exceptionally wide range of issues. The topics ranged from how the municipal government should address silver mining-era contaminated soils to the prospects of a second Winter Olympics in the state.