Tracy Tuttle (Chairman)
Tracy was born and raised in the Town of Richmond. A graduate of Richmond High School Class of 1983. She attended Central Beauty School and opened a salon in 1988. The Salon today is known as Kennebec Cutters and Company.
Tracy's family include her husband Dana, children Nicole and Wade. Her favorite past times are cooking, going to Red Sox games and smelting.
Living and working in this community has helped her to know a great number of people and collectively she feels the town has a great number of hard working, caring and generous individuals to which she focuses her time on listening and giving time to each persons needs. Tracy also servces on the CDBG Loan Board.
Rose Beckwith (Vice-Chairman)
Rose is a fourth generation Dearborn to live in the Town of Richmond. She spent many years away during her father's career in the Military but the family came back upon his retirement. She is a graduate of Richmond High School. She is married to David and they have four (4) daughters (all Richmond High School Graduates) and six (6) grandchildren. She has worked as an Educational Technician at the Marcia Buker Elementary School for the past 23 years. She graduated from Kennebec Valley Technical College, Phi Beta Kappa in 2002.
Rose has been actively involved in the community since her return. She had been a Brownie Leader for 12 years, involved in Richmond Summer League for 17 years as a softball coach and president of RSL, incorporating the program into a municipal program and making major field renovations. Richmond Days Committee for 3 years, spearheaded a youth soccer program in the 80's, Sally Hoyt Award winner (spend many years as a child with Sally Hoyt), and a former member of the CBGD revolving loan program. Currently Rose is the Richmond High School Alumni Association President, President of the Richmond Support Staff Association, Coordinator of the Richmond Summer Recreation Program, and Coordinator of the Youth Soccer Program.
Rose feels this is a wonderful time to be involved in Town Government. Richmond is indeed on the move and she wants to ensure we do not forget the importance of keeping our small town feel and personality.
Clarence Cummins
Born in Eastern Montana, Clarence is a graduate of Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota and a graduate of the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey California. He and his wife, Dee, have lived in Richmond since 1996. Clarence has previously served on the Town Budget Committee as a member and Committee Chairman. He has served as a volunteer for several local organization, as a board member and an officer.
A career Naval Officer, he served 27 years on active duty in both operational and staff positions with significant responsibility. This service included two tours in squadrons at the Naval Air Station in Brunswick, duty as a department head on an aircraft carrier, staff duty at the headquarters of the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and duty as the Public Affairs Officer at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
Following retirement from the U.S. Navy Clarence worked for a Government Contractor, supervising the preperation of technical proposals for government contracts. The team he led was awarded $300 million in contracts resulting from the proposals the team submitted during a period of 13 years.
In addition to his wife, Clarence's family includes three children and five grandchildren. A daughter lives in Richmond, one son and family live in Pennsylvania and another son and family live in Indiana.
Daniel Dunton
Dan was born and raised just down the road from us in Brunswick, Maine. A 1993 graduate of Brunswick High School, Dan went on to attend Southern Maine Technical College for Automotive Technology. He spent much of his childhood at his grandparents farm in Brunswick helping with the cows, horses and haying of the fields.
When he and his wife Tonia decided to settle down it was Richmond that caught their eye. The small town charm with numerous farms reminded him and his wife of their childhoods and they never looked back. Dan and Tonia have three (3) children, Alyssa, Cameron and Alex who attend Richmond schools.
Dan spent many years working in the Medical Equipment field and in 2004 wanted to be more involved in the community so he went to the Police Academy to become a Reserve Police Officer. Dan worked part time for the Richmond Police Department for five (5) years. During this time he also joined the Budget Committee and was nominated Chairman in 2009. In 2010, there was an opening for the Selectboard and he was elected in June to the position.
Dan is actively involved in the towns youth sports and volunteers as much time as he can to help the kids have fun. He enjoys working on the Board of Selectman and hopes to continue the positive growth the town has seen over the past ten years.
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