Pendleton Mayor Planting Seeds for Long-Range Progress — The Anderson Observer

Pendleton Mayor Planting Seeds for Long-Range Progress — The Anderson Observer

Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer“Patience.”That’s the one-word summary from Pendleton Mayor Sarah Stokowski of the most important lesson she’s learned in her first few months in office.When Stokowski talks about being mayor, she begins not with a list of accomplishments but with an adjustment of temperament. She is discovering that the work of a small-town executive is less about quick wins than about living comfortably with the fact that she canno…