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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.
SUSAN JOHNS Mon, 12/21/2020 - 8:15am
From left, Alton King III, wife Jean and their children Allyson, Hannah, Nevaeh, Mckayla, Alton IV and Mathew enjoy their new Santa Dec. 20 in the family’s Alna yard, where another Santa disappeared last week. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Christmas 2019 with the King family’s Santa Claus, now missing. File photo
Santa Claus is waving with his left arm now. And he has a new green sack and black gloves instead of green.
He is shorter, too.
But this one Jean and Alton King III and family put up Sunday in their Route 218 yard still towered over them. And it filled them with thanks. Alna Snowmobile Club gave them the club’s Santa.
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Jean and Alton King’s first Santa, pictured in December 2019. File photo
Santa and friends were fine as they greeted Route 218 travelers Nov. 30, a little over two weeks before Santa’s disappearance. File photo
The yard without its Santa Claus Dec. 17. Courtesy of Jean King
UPDATE: Alna Snowmobile Club is giving its inflatable Santa Claus to the family whose Santa was stolen from a yard display, selectmen and a club spokesman confirmed the night of Dec. 17, hours after Jean and Alton King III reported the apparent theft.
“We are so excited and grateful to the snowmobile club for the Santa,” Jean King told Wiscasset Newspaper. “As soon as he arrives we plan to set him up right away and continue to enjoy this holiday season.”