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Linn County Commissioners Roger Nyquist, Sherrie Sprenger and Will Tucker last week celebrated the approaching end of the state’s COVID-19 mask mandate on Saturday, March 12, and commended county staff and elected officials who continued to keep their offices open and provide services during the two years of the pandemic.

“I also want to express my gratitude to the citizens of Linn County who made it work,” Nyquist said at the commission’s weekly meeting, held Tuesday, March 8.

“We persevered, lived life and did what we could do for each other,” he added, likening the staff’s...