‘Raise your right hand’

By Randy Wyrick

EAGLE — Eagle County voters elected some new faces and kept some old ones, and Tuesday those candidates were sworn in to the offices they campaigned so hard to earn. District Court Judge Fred Gannett did the honors, but only after Jill Ryan, chairperson of the Board of County Commissioners, gave him his oath of office. Voters overwhelmingly voted to keep Gannett on the bench for another four-year term. Gannett has been a judge for almost three decades and said swearing-in ceremonies for the judiciary tend to be more private affairs. Not on Tuesday. The Eagle County Room was packed …

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