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Brenda Brandt takes the podium to address a banquet crowd after being named the 2016 Newspaper Person of the Year at the annual convention of the Colorado Press Association Saturday, April 22. —Thomas Cooper, LightboxImages.com
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Holyoke Enterprise publisher Brenda Brandt is surrounded by family as she accepts the 2016 Colorado Press Association Newspaper Person of the Year award in Denver Saturday, April 22. Pictured from left are family members Randy Johnson, Molly Brandt, Russ and Lori Pankonin, Elna Johnson, Bob and Brenda Brandt, and Paula and Kurt Johnson. —Thomas Cooper, LightboxImages.com
Brenda Brandt named Colorado Newspaper Person of the Year
“Splendid” was a word echoed between two sisters and two brothers Saturday evening, April 22, as they gathered together in Denver.