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George Latimer, the longest-serving mayor in St. Paul’s history, died on Sunday. He was 89.
Latimer served as St. Paul’s mayor from 1976 to 1990, overseeing a transformational time for the city.
Another of his major accomplishments was creating District Energy. The system provides energy to downtown St. Paul and the West Side neighborhood through a series of pipes carrying water for heating or cooling.
Latimer’s vision of making St. Paul a green city was decades ahead of its time.
“We will be developing a system which, should other energy sources be developed, can be adapted to either coal or the burning of garbage or to solar or to whatever the future may hold,” he said of District Energy.
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