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Local government’s handyman comes to the rescue
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You could call Mark Garcia a serial problem solver for Colorado’s city halls. One city hall after another, in fact. There was the San Luis Valley town of Center, where Garcia stepped in as town clerk and administrator in 2009 after the town’s previous clerk went to jail for tax fraud. There was Silverton, where…
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Second Center clerk headed to federal prison
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The second city clerk in the small southern Colorado town of Center, north of Alamosa in the San Luis Valley, has resigned this week to possibly serve time in federal prison for tax-related fraud, according to the Center Post Dispatch. In March, Joan Mobley pled guilty to “a false statement charge and two aggravated identity…