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12:30 pm, Feb. 20, 2021
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Michael Plante, shown in this January 2014 file photo, was offered the position of county administrator for Wabasha County in a reconvened meeting Wednesday nigth. (Post Bulletin file photo)
WABASHA In a 5-0 vote, the Wabasha County Board of Commissioners voted to offer the job of county administrator to Michael Plante during a re-convened meeting of the board Wednesday night.
Plante, who had worked as county administrator in Wabasha County previously, had left the job in 2019 for a city manager position in Prior Lake, Minn. That job ended after six months when the Prior Lake City Council let him go after he was charged with – and eventually pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of – domestic assault. For the past year, Plante has been the city manager of ....

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