Mattson caps a career of service

Submitted photoFormer Wyoming City Administrator Craig Mattson oversaw many changes during his decade with the city. He retired at the end of 2016.
Amy Doeun
Wyoming Reporter
Craig Mattson was born in the Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis just after World War II. His brother had been born before the war, and his parents moved to the West Coast to build airplanes, P-38s. Though his father could have stayed out of the military because of the work he was doing, Mattson said his dad felt guilty and joined the Navy in 1942, serving for the remainder of the war. After the war, the family moved back home to the farm in Minnesota.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Mattson is a wellspring of knowledge about local history.
“My grandfather owned land that went from the Mississippi River to Earle Brown farm,” he said. “Back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, Earle Brown started the highway patrol. When he died, his land went to

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