Hoy takes a trip to "the other Conrad"

For Conrad City Clerk and Administrator Denise Hoy, the community of Conrad, Montana—a small town of about 2,500 residents nestled in the northwest part of the state and located east of Glacier National Park—is quite familiar: in her 20 years on the job, she has received bills, payments and all sorts of mail that were meant for the “other” Conrad. When Hoy and her husband Barry recently took a vacation in Big Sky Country, they stopped in Conrad, visited city hall and finally explored their sister city for the first time.
           
Conrad, Iowa, and Conrad, Montana, are the only two incorporated “Conrads” in the United States, and since the Hoys have family in Montana, they figured that they might as well explore the community that shares their namesake on the way back from Glacier National Park.
           
“Once in a while, we’ll get each other’s mail, and they get ours sometimes too. That’s been going on for quite a while,” Hoy said. “When I was looking at the map, it’s like ‘oh my gosh, Conrad’s not that far from where we’re going to head,’ so we made sure that we made that a stop.”
 
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