] Sam Gaston walked into the Mountain Brook City Council Chamber the night of Monday, March 14 — just before the council's regular meeting — and saw his family sitting on the front row. 'What in the world are they doing here?' he remembers thinking. 'Am I in trouble?' Quite the opposite. Gaston, the Mountain Brook city manager for nearly 30 years, has been memorialized in his own time as the City Council Chamber now bears his name. City Council President Virginia Smith said a great deal of thought went into the decision of how to properly recognize Gaston.

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