Symphony, conductor pack the park in Grove

COTTAGE GROVE – It looks like Alex Prior is everything he was cracked up to be.

As the Eugene Symphony performed “The Liberty Bell” on Monday night at Bohemia Park, Cottage Grove Mayor Candace Solesbee took the conductor’s stage, while Prior played the bell.

Cottage Grove Mayor Candace Solesbee and conductor Alex Prior / PHOTO BY BOB WILLIAMS

Prior thought it was the mayor’s conducting debut. He thought wrong.

“Oh, it’s not her first rodeo,”…