Mayoring a small city: Sharon Zelazny
February 1, 2019
To be a can-do attitude and solid people skills. Cromwell’s Mayor, Sharon Zelazny, has risen to the challenge, and she loves her job and her staff.
Sharon and her husband Bill built a house on Cromwell Lake as their retirement dream home. In the fall of 2016 she made a last-minute decision to run for Cromwell mayor. Her husband and then city clerk LuAnn Freiermuth encouraged her. She won handily, and two years later was enthusiastically re-elected.
Cromwell, with a small spatial footprint, is a challenging city. Its main street is Highway 210, with trucks barreling towards the lone stop...
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