Amy Warner wasn’t looking to be town clerk when she stopped into the Alna town office in May 2008. The bookkeeper and longtime Great Impasta (Brunswick) waitress was there to register her car.

Then she got talking with the clerk and wound up applying for a deputy clerk job.

She got it, then moved up to the clerk job in spring 2009.

She is leaving for another pursuit, her and fiance Toby Stockford’s Old Narrow Gauge Farm. In addition to their products using wild forage, they have laying hens and raise Gloucestershire Old Spots, a heritage breed pig. The organic farm has grown to a point where someone needs to be there to monitor the animals and their fencing, Warner said.

“If I’m here, I’m not home watching everybody and seeing what’s going on. If somebody’s going to have a litter of pigs, we need to have someone home,” she said.

Warner, who works part-time at Boothbay Harbor Country Club in the summer, has helped move the town office forward on a number of fronts including making a town website with access to tax maps. She also developed a residency form for Regional School Unit 12 to help ensure that students’ families live where they say they live. The form has drawn praise from RSU 12 Superintendent of Schools Howie Tuttle. And Warner this year got selectmen’s OK on new hours for the town office. The new schedule adds to residents’ options and gives her time to get business done when the office is closed, Warner has said.

She has mentioned before that she would be giving up the clerk’s job, but at the Oct. 21 selectmen’s meeting, Seth Hagar, co-owner of the town’s plowing contractor Hagar Enterprises, asked her when she is leaving.

March, she told him.

In an interview at the town office Friday, Warner said she had not turned in a resignation letter but had told selectmen she would stay on through the annual town meeting in March 2016. That will allow time to help get her successor acclimated, she said.

Former Alna deputy tax collector Lisa Arsenault has agreed to come aboard, first as a deputy clerk in addition to Alna Deputy Town Clerk Carol Small, First Selectman David Abbott said Monday. Then plans call for Arsenault to become town clerk when Warner leaves, he said.

Abbott has served on the board much of the time Warner has served as clerk. “She’s been a super person to work with,” he said.

”We’re going to miss her. She’s very efficient, but she’s also got a nice personality. She’s friendly to people,” he added.

Warner expects to miss the clerk job, especially the time it gave her with fellow townspeople. She’s been the person people come to when they need something; that’s been fulfilling, she said.

“So many aspects of the job have to do with so many different parts of town, elections, schools, taxes. I directly am involved with all of those. So I’ll miss that, I think.”

She will still chair the Committee for Alna History, and hopes to have more time to give it. “I won’t have so much that comes ahead of it.”

As word has gotten around that Warner would be leaving the clerk job, a lot of people have asked what they could do to convince her to stay, she said.

“That makes me feel good.”