RANGELEY – Town Manager Perry Ellsworth has resigned to take the town manager’s job for South Berwick.
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After working here for six years and nine months, Ellsworth’s last day in the Rangeley office is Friday. Ellsworth of Strong, said he made the job change because he was felt the time was right.
“I felt like I accomplished all I can and I’m looking forward to a new challenge,” he said today. Among the challenges will be moving from a seasonally recreation-based town of 1,200 people to a southern Maine town with about 7,200 in population.
In his years in Rangeley, he considers the $1.2 million in grant funding, with another $500,000 coming in after he’s left, to update the airport’s safety issues among the more important projects accomplished during his tenure.
Completing the two comfort stations from the $70,000 the town raised 18 years ago and supported with grant funding with community organizations, including the Rangeley Lakes Chamber of Commerce and the Rangeley Heritage Trust Fund, working with the town together to make it happen another highlight.
He credited the good relationship of town officials and community working together as the reason for the successes.
His resume includes working as a supervisor at the former International Paper Co. in Jay and serving for more than 20 years on various civic boards, including as a Strong selectman board chair, the Franklin County budget committee chair, and a MSAD 58 school board representative for Strong.
Ellsworth, who will be keeping his residence in Strong, said he is excited to begin a new chapter in his life and feels good about what he’s accomplished in Rangeley.
“I’d like to think I left Rangeley a little better off than when I found it,” he said.
