When Sarah Perkins leaves as Alna's town clerk in late June, Deputy Town Clerk Lisa Arsenault, a familiar face at the town office and next door when it was the town office, will become clerk. Selectmen announced Arsenault's promotion after an executive, or closed door, session May 8.

Selectmen in March announced Perkins was resigning effective June 26. They said she was leaving because her farm has gotten too busy to balance with the job.

Arsenault was Alna's town clerk a few years in the 1990s, again from February 2016 to June 2017, and from June 2021 to summer 2022, according to Wiscasset Newspaper files.

In January, selectmen announced Arsenault’s hire as deputy clerk.

Also May 8, Ed Pentaleri of Fund to Support Historic Alna announced receipt of Nick Thaw and wife Irena Gapkovska's $10,000 donation toward the ceiling repairs at the 1789 Alna Meetinghouse. Pentaleri added, former Maine State Historian Earle Shettleworth recently said the meetinghouse was among about half a dozen of that vintage in Maine, and is the best-preserved.

"It's something we drive past every day," Pentaleri said. "And I think it could be easy to just take it for granted, and not appreciate the wonderful resource it is. We're trying to make it into a better resource, by making more frequent use of it" for events, he added. The meetinghouse's ceiling work will start late October, after the last of this year's events there and at Puddle Dock School, Pentaleri said. 

Third Selectman Coreysha Stone reported the community cleanup yielded 29 and a half pounds of trash and, for Alna's food pantry, about 17 pounds of bottles. The bottles weren't counted at the event because some were "disgusting," she said.