Celebrating 33 years of service

The Town of Whiting will honor retiring Town Clerk Grace Simonds with a luncheon buffet at Town Hall on Saturday, April 19, from 1 to 4 p.m. Simonds recently retired after thirty-three years as town clerk. The Whiting Board of Selectmen asks residents to participate in the event in these ways:

• Bring a non-perishable food item for the Whiting Food Sheld.
• Bring old photos of town events.
• Bring a story to share.

New town office hours

With the election of new Whiting Town Clerk Gale Quenneville, the town office has adjusted its hours. The new town office hours are:

• Mondays, 9 a.m. to noon; 
• Mondays, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.;
• Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to noon; 
• And by appointment.

The clerk can be contacted by phone at 623-7813 or by email at townofwhiting@shoreham.net.

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.

Town Clerk Grace Simonds to retire

Whiting seeks new clerk/treasurer

The Town of Whiting has announced that long-time Town Clerk/Treasurer Grace Simonds will be retiring from her position. A celebration in honor of her service to Whiting will be scheduled for the spring.

A new clerk/treasurer will be elected at the Town Meeting. The selectmen have distributed a flyer containing qualifications, duties, hours, salary and benefits. (The first qualification for the office is "excellent people skills and patience - with people who may be angry when they come in to the office.") The flyer is shown below.

Valuable community resource

Had a great chat with Whiting Town Clerk Grace Simonds yesterday afternoon. Grace is extraordinarily knowledgeable about the history of Whiting and the more recent goings-on in town. And she was generous with that knowledge. She shared a bit of her own family history and described the situations that led to the construction of our current residence.

One bit of town government news: There will be no meeting of the Whiting Selectboard this coming Monday (Oct. 8), due to the Columbus Day holiday. The next meeting of the board will be Monday, Oct. 22.

Whiting town office hours

Posted outside the town offices. Hours are Monday and Wednesday,
9 a.m. to noon and 4-6 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to noon.