Originally posted Tuesday, February 19, 2019 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog
Karen Minton is retiring as a Channel 2 Action News meteorologist on February 27 after 33 years.
“My contract isn’t up until October 2019 but I just felt ready,” Minton said in an interview with me last October. It’s time for me to go and have some fun. My kids are raised and on their own. It’s time for me to do a few things and let the younger ones come in and have a go at mornings.”
Here are shots of her through the years:
Karen with her cousins at her farm in Lodia, Calif. in the 1960s
ABOVE: Karen on the farm in Lodi, Calif. 1963
ABOVE: Headshot, KOVR Channel 13, Sacramento, 1981
ABOVE: The Weather Channel, July, 1984, Marie Michelini, Karen and Chris Edwards
ABOVE: Karen at the Weather Channel in 1985
Circa 1987
ABOVE: WSB head shot 1991
Karen with Brian Monahan at 2015 Braves Weather Day
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