Clerk Simonds retires

Retiring Clerk Simonds keeps things organized at last night's Town Meeting.

Grace Simonds has stepped down as Whiting town clerk/town treasurer after 33 years in the position. She kept minutes of a Whiting Town Meeting for the final time last night, as her successor was chosen and annual school and town budgets were passed. During the meeting, Grace was elected to Town Juror and Town Agent positions and narrowly lost a race for Collector of Delinquent Taxes. Grace has a passion for local history and is a walking encyclopedia of Whiting's past. She offered last night to assist local families in tracing their Whiting roots and prodded the town to finance maintenance at the town cemetery which holds graves dating back to the Revolutionary War.