Justin Pregont is eager to show off his town to visitors, and quickly navigates downtown streets surrounding the city building where he works, in spite of the slow but steady stream of traffic.
He grew up here in Atchison, and after a time away earning his master’s degree at the University of Kansas and working in a suburb of Kansas City, he returned. He’s now the assistant city manager and raising his family in the northeast Kansas town of 11,000.
While he was pleased to return, his wife Melinda Pregont, freely admits that moving back to Atchison was not an easy decision to make. “I really wanted to stay in Kansas City,” she said. “It was very challenging for me to come back here.”
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