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Charles Culbertson
Alna’s two candidates on the March 27 ballot for second selectman and the two seeking to be third selectman answered Wiscasset Newspaper’s uniform questions on why they are running; what traits, experience, etc. do they have that will aid their service as selectman; what their top priorities would be if elected, and why; and anything else they would like to get across to voters. The newspaper told candidates their complete response could total up to 500 words.
Second selectman candidate Linda Kristan
As I gathered signatures on the application form for second selectperson in Alna, I heard many times, “Thank you for running.” This was not an impulsive decision on my part. I considered several other ways of serving in Alna before this,including the school board, planning board, and part-time town clerk. The timing was not quite right for those opportunities, but the opening on the select board connected for several reasons. I had the time, energy and r
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Past Alna town clerk, turned interim town clerk Amy Stockford. File photo
Amy Stockford never stopped serving Alna after she left as town clerk in 2016. The co-owner of Old Narrow Gauge Farm with Toby Stockford, and mother of Etta, pushing 4, has been town treasurer more than five years. And now, after the town’s latest clerk, Sheila McCarty, resigned, Stockford has agreed to be interim clerk.
Selectmen named Stockford to the job at a board meeting Monday afternoon, First Selectman Melissa Spinney said. Spinney explained via text, Stockford will still be treasurer. “The (deputy clerks Linda Verney and Lynette Eastman) will handle most of the day to day duties as they’ve been doing. Amy really only needs to do a few hours a week of clerk stuff, like getting ready for election.”
Dam site work questioned as zoning debate continues
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Alna selectmen said Wednesday night, Jan. 20, they would have the codes enforcement officer and possibly Maine Department of Environmental Protection see if anything added to the Head Tide Dam site should not have been and, if so, how to address it.
If the bench should not be at the shore, it can be moved to higher ground, said resident Chris Kenoyer, who served on a committee that helped plan the site’s 2019 makeover. Third Selectman Greg Shute noted the bench was a request from the town, not Atlantic Salmon Federation, which did the dam project. As for gravel added due to erosion, Second Selectman Doug Baston said the planning board might have erred in allowing it, but if so he was unsure how to “unscramble that egg.”
7-year-old resident raises Bailey Road dumping concern
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The completed work at the Sheepscot River off Golden Ridge Road, Alna. File photo
Grace Walker, then 6, uses the hand sanitizer following Alna’s abbreviated, March 21, 2020 town meeting. Walker, now 7, recently wrote selectmen seeking help to prevent dumping. File photo
One of Jeff Spinney’s neighbors after another on Zoom Wednesday night criticized his and the town’s shoreland deal. Selectmen signed the agreement they said Spinney, of Golden Ridge Road, also signed and abutters declined to sign. Board members called the agreement a compromise that was in the town’s best interest.