As a newspaper reporter, Aaron Miller spent years chronicling town governments' work. These days, the Alna man gets to see it all from the inside.

In neighboring Whitefield, Miller is town clerk, treasurer, registrar of voters, assistant tax collector and the selectmen's administrative assistant.

“And snow shoveler,” he said.

The former Boothbay Harbor deputy town clerk started his full-time, multi-titled job in Whitefield in October 2012.

Now he's got one more hat to wear, this one right in the town he moved to about seven years ago.

On March 22, Miller was sworn in as Alna's new treasurer.

Miller, 40, said he thought the treasurer's job would fit well on a number of fronts. It's very part-time work, nothing that should get in the way of his duties in Whitefield, he said. And both towns could benefit if he notices things one of them does that might also work well in the other, he said.

When he was first seeking to move from newspapers to another line of work, Boothbay Harbor Town Manager Tom Woodin gave him the chance to apply his experience covering municipal government, to working in it, Miller said.

Miller saw local government work as a way to tap into what he had learned at all those meetings of selectmen, planning boards and other panels.

“It only made sense to work on the other side of the fence,” he said.

As he expected, knowledge he picked up in his prior career has helped him in his new one. “Things pop up (that) I've dealt with in the past.

“It’s very helpful...,” he said. “You’re sort of pre-seasoned.”