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Columbia Community Relations Director Steve Sapp will retire Jan. 14 after 41 years of service to the city. 

“My entire career has been dedicated to public service and to the residents of mid-Missouri,” Sapp said in a news release Wednesday.

He first started with the city Jan. 14, 1980 with Public Safety Joint Communications as a 911 dispatcher. He transitioned to the Columbia Fire Department as a firefighter in 1989. He was assigned as a lieutenant to the Fire Marshal Division in 1998, working his way up to captain and battalion chief as the fire marshal…