2014 -15 Board of Directors
Kathy Gallant, Chair
Kathy has enjoyed living and volunteering in the community since moving to Bowdoinham in 1995. She was a Select Board Member (2011-2014), and previously served on the Planning Board. Kathy owns a small business in town, the Bowdoinham Village Guest Suite. She is also a real estate agent, who strives to ensure that farms, farmland, and forests continue in farming or are protected by conservation, vs. being developed.
David Engler, Treasurer
David Engler and his wife, Annette Mott, moved to Bowdoinham in 1976. He is a retired mechanical engineer who spent his professional career in the pulp & paper and power industries. He now enjoys gardening, his apple orchard, raising chickens and an occasional pig, bee keeping, and various volunteer activities including stove building in Guatemala. He is a member of the Town of Bowdoinham’s Financial Advisory Committee.
Harriet Van Vleck, Secretary
Harriet Van Vleck moved to Bowdoinham in 2012 with her husband Atlee Reilly. She is an ecologist who has worked with the University of Minnesota and The Nature Conservancy using economic, ecological, and cultural analyses to inform broad-scale land use planning. Harriet and Atlee are very happy to be back in Maine and feel lucky to have found their way to Bowdoinham.
Laurel Waterman-Lopez
Laurel moved to Bowdoinham with her family in 2003. Besides raising two boys, she works as a custom framer and has an all natural body product line called Laurel's Line. She was a member of the MSAD75 school board of directors and enjoys volunteering in the schools and in the town of Bowdoinham. In her spare time she can be found at the baseball fields, on a boat or in the garden.
Brian Smith
Brian and his wife, Luana, moved to Bowdoinham in 1975. Brian operated a land surveying business from 1978 to 2012, employing up to 12 people in Bowdoinham. He is now semi-retired. Brian has served on numerous town land use committees since 1976 and is currently Vice Chair of the Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC). Fishing, woodworking, gardening and granddaughter, Sadie, are Brian's passions.
Andy Cutko
Andy is an Ecologist and Licensed Forester with the Maine Natural Areas Program. He and his Wife (who is the Town Librarian) and kids live in an old farmhouse surrounded by fields of organic farmland. With MNAP, Andy is responsible for ecological inventory and monitoring, forestry technical assistance, natural community classification and public land management on State owned lands.
Kathy Montejo
Kathy is the City Clerk for the City of Lewiston. Kathy has 20+ years of professional local government experience with responsibilities including election administration, business licensing and permitting regulations, City Council operations, processing of vital records (birth, marriage and death records), event logistics, records management systems, customer service delivery and open meeting law requirements.
Dwight Sholes
Dwight and hispartner Glenn moved to Bowdoinham from the Portland area in 2006. After a childhood spent overseas and stints as an adult in cities across the US, Dwight was drawn to the natural beauty and close community of Bowdoinham. He believes that the town's diversity can be an important asset for building a unique model of sustainability, and he is delighted to bring his years of experience as an entrepreneur to benefit the town he has grown to love. Dwight currently works as a digital marketing strategist from his home on the Cathance.
David Whittlesey - Consulting Manager
David lived in Bowdoinham and worked as a teacher at Mt Ararat and a carpenter in the 1970’s, before leaving to work internationally until 2004 when he returned. He served on the Selectboard from 2009-2011 and the recently completed Comprehensive Planning Committee. David also volunteers at Bay Day and does water quality testingfor Friends of Merrymeeting Bay.
Other Active volunteers :
Tony Cox, Owner of a local Framing Shop and Gallery; George Christopher, Farmer; Jack Beaudoin, Freelance publisher; Jeremy Cluchey, Designer at Bates College; plus 20 Members of the Screening Committee pool, Who include a contractor, a nurse, an artist, etc.