Mon, 03/15/2021 - 2:15pm
Then-Alna Third Selectman Doug Baston, left, shakes hands with retiring First Selectman David Abbott after handing him a gold-colored model tractor at the start of the March 2018 town meeting. File photo
Doug Baston will be stepping down as second selectman this month. On behalf of the citizens of Alna, we want to thank him for his years of service to our town as a planning board member, a selectman, a friend and neighbor. He cares deeply for Alna, its history, its character and its people. I served on the planning board with Doug back when our town office was located in the Puddledock School. Besides dealing with site visits, subdivisions, modifying, crafting and enforcing ordinances, we were then mandated by the state to create a comprehensive plan. As chairman, Doug led us through this time-consuming and complicated process and its approval by the town.