OTISFIELD — More than 70 people turned out Saturday, July 25 at the Community Hall to mark Administrative Assistant Marianne Izzo-Morin’s retirement from nearly three decades of work for the town.
“She was overwhelmed with mixed emotions and was grateful to all,” said Town Clerk Sharon Matthews of the event.
Town officials presented her with a plaque and floral arrangement at the June 27 annual town meeting but wanted an informal gathering where officials, residents and other friends, including some she hadn’t seen in years, showed up to wish her well.
Izzo-Morin has served the town in many capacities including as a selectman, a member of the Board of Appeals, Recreation Committee and Welfare director over the past three decades.
With the help of others, and often by herself, Izzo-Morin has also taken on a myriad of other tasks ranging from organizing the annual Easter egg hunt in the 1990s to physically securing and saving the town’s only mail box with the help of Matthews and other town office employees when the U.S. Postal Service came to remove it in 2009.
Izzo-Morin will be replaced by longtime town employee and official Anne Pastore, a member of the Board of Appeals, who was appointed by selectmen at their July 15 meeting from a group of 12 candidates.
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