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Michelle Soares Vanslette of Wayland is the new director of finance and administration for Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT), bringing a wealth of experience in finance, management and accounting to the role.
She joins SVT from FAIRWAYiQ in Waltham, where she was the director of finance and administration for five years. Prior to that, she spent seven years as controller for the nonprofit YWCA in White Plains, New York. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University.
Sudbury Valley Trustees is a nonprofit land trust that conserves natural areas and farmland in the region around the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Rivers.
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LITTLETON A plan to use herbicides to remove an invasive plant at Smith Conservation Land is causing worries about potential consequences, including to wildlife and drinking water.
Sudbury Valley Trustees representatives outlined the plan at a Littleton Select Board meeting on Dec. 7, held virtually due to coronavirus restrictions.
The Select Board asked that the organization delay implementing the plan until an expected recertification of chemicals, including of an herbicide included in the plan.
A recertification is expected early in 2021.
Laura Mattei, the organization s stewardship director, said they will take the Select Board s request under advisement and respond by the week s end.