Alna is looking for a new town clerk. Lisa Arsenault “has decided that it’s time for her to move on,” First Selectman Ed Pentaleri said in the board’s Aug. 10 meeting at the town office and over Zoom. According to Wiscasset Newspaper files,.
Alna residents contracted with Wiscasset Ambulance Service for $17,881 March 26. Central Lincoln County Ambulance Service served the town for the past six years, but with a budget increase from $5,500 to $36,371, and the guarantee of mutual aid, WAS.
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Alna selectmen set this year’s tax rate July 29 at $18.95 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation, the same as last year.
Officials said education costs were up, but so were excise tax and state revenue sharing. Second Selectman Linda Kristan said she met July 20 with Treasurer Amy Stockford and assessors’ agent John O’Donnell. Kristan called the flat rate good news. Some people are still struggling, she said.
Meeting over Zoom for the lone item, the board set the rate a year to the day the last board set 2020’s rate.
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Then-Alna Town Clerk Lisa Arsenault, far left, takes part in a July 2016 selectmen’s meeting with then-Second Selectman Melissa Spinney, then-First Selectman David Abbott and then-Third Selectman Doug Baston at the then-town office. File photo
Former Alna town clerk Lisa Arsenault is back in the job. Selectmen announced the hire over Zoom June 23.
Clerk Sheila McCarty resigned in February. Second Selectman Linda Kristan said, while Arsenault has been interim clerk this spring, the town office has had good community spirit. “They support each other, they nurture each other and they’re always upbeat and positive.”
“I think she’s fantastic,” Third Selectman Charles Culbertson said of Arsenault. “And she’s excited to go gangbusters on this full-time.”