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Sometimes Ryan Seidl zigs. Sometimes he zags. But there always seems to be some serious thought behind it. And he always seems to come out in a better place than before. The new finance director for the city of Corvallis grew up in St. Louis, where he was an honor student and class officer. He was expected to go to college. Instead, he enlisted in the United State Marine Corps because he wanted to travel. Once in the Marines, Seidl qualified for the exclusive ceremonial and security detail that accompanies the president when traveling on the Marine One helicopter. Seidl visited 20 countries i...

Sometimes Ryan Seidl zigs. Sometimes he zags. But there always seems to be some serious thought behind it. And he always seems to come out in a better place than before. The new finance director for the city of Corvallis grew up in St. Louis, where he was an honor student and class officer. He was expected to go to college. Instead, he enlisted in the United State Marine Corps because he wanted to travel. Once in the Marines, Seidl qualified for the exclusive ceremonial and security detail that accompanies the president when traveling on the Marine One helicopter. Seidl visited 20 countries i...

Six-plus months into his sixth year as city manager of Corvallis, Mark Shepard is working through a routine period dominated by the coronavirus, homelessness and the need to replace more than 120 years of staff institutional knowledge. In other words it’s business as usual for a person seeking to manage a city of nearly 60,000 people. “It’s certainly a very interesting and challenging job,” said Shepard, 55, in a bit of an understatement.” Shepard participated in a pair of dual Gazette-Times interviews, one via email and one via telephone, in an effort to provide an o...