Pokin Around: Willard mayor only 25, probably city's youngest, first Black mayor
Samuel Snider will make history when he is sworn in as mayor of Willard at 7 p.m. April 26 at the Willard Community Center, 222 W. Jackson St. He almost certainly is both the youngest mayor and the first Black mayor in the history of Willard, a city of about 6,000 incorporated in 1949. David Burton was managing editor of the Cross Country Times, now defunct, from 1989 to 1993, in Willard. Is Snider the youngest mayor and first Black mayor in Willard? "It's very likely," Burton tells me. Snider also just might be the first in both categories in the history of "I would think he's pretty well g...