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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.

Jordan Peele had trudged through the waist-deep snow to the Park City Library for a “secret” midnight screening of his directorial debut, “Get Out,” a secret in name only, as everyone sitting in the theater — including Malia Obama, then an intern at the Weinstein Co. — knew what they were about to see.

They created a council-appointed review panel to screen children’s books in the city library for sexual content, and drafted a ballot measure to require voter identification at the polls.

One of the more controversial episodes, residents say, has been Van Der Mark’s book-cleansing campaign — mainly a move to bar sex education materials and books with LGBTQ+ themes from the children’s section of the city library.