Ridgway Public Library trustees decided Oct. 21 to undertake board training on Sunshine laws, adopt a new policy regarding records requests and ink an employment contract with new Director Amy Baer weeks after the Plaindealer reported they violated state laws in her hiring process this summer.

The board also unanimously voted to name the library’s recently renovated children’s wing, completed in 2020, after the grandson of retired Director Kristen Moberg, who led the institution for 27 years....