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They leaned on social media outreach, door knocking, rallies and a nonpartisan message stressing the common good that was the city library.

In time, such Boulder venues as Macky Auditorium, the Boulder Theater and the Dairy Arts Center may become as familiar to Sundance attendees as the Eccles Theater, Egyptian Theatre and Park City Library are to them now.

Over the last two years, Huntington Beach has barred the rainbow flag from flying over City Hall each spring in celebration of Pride Month, created a review panel to screen children’s books in the city library for sexual content, and put forth a local measure passed by voters that will allow officials to require voter identification at the polls.

Over the last four years, officials in the conservative beach town have declared it a “no mask and no vaccine-mandate” city, sued the state over zoning requirements to add housing and a “sanctuary city” immigration law, created a panel to screen children’s books in the city library for sexual content and approved the voter ID measure for the March ballot despite threats of a lawsuit.

Here are Mary Foy, first woman to head the city library, George A. Ralphs, founder of the grocery chain, and Japanese Americans who fought in the World War II “go for broke” regiment, awarded 21 Medals of Honor and about 4,000 Purple Hearts.