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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. ....
SUSAN JOHNS File photo Neither of the Alna selectmen whose seats are up for election March 26 sought to stay on, and voters will have choices for both seats. Nominations closed at noon Tuesday. Town Clerk Sheila McCarty said Kyle Levasseur and Linda Kristan will be on the ballot for the second selectman’s seat Doug Baston now holds; and Christopher Cooper and Charles Culbertson are running for third selectman, the seat Greg Shute now holds. Road Commissioner Jeff Verney will be unopposed on the ballot for another one-year term; and recent Sheepscot Valley Regional School Unit 12 board appointee Kristina Verney is running unopposed for that seat, McCarty said. ....
Dam site work questioned as zoning debate continues SUSAN JOHNS File photo 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.” ....