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Six new advocates have joined The Last Green Valley, Inc. Board of Directors to steer the nonprofit toward its goal of sustainability. Each person is a member of the organization and represents a geographic area of the 35-town region as well as a TLGV mission interest.
Both Marge Hoskin of Central Village and Mark Paquette of Willimantic were elected to two-year terms on the Board of Directors. Ms. Hoskin, a local historian and columnist, is credited as one of the people who founded the National Heritage Corridor in the early 1990s. Mr. Paquette is well known in the recreation field and has worked as an enthusiast for trail development for many years in addition to being executive director of the Windham Regional Council of Governments.
Elected to three-year terms are Elsie Bisset, Joan St. Ament, Nancy Polydys and Thomas Dufresne. Ms. Bisset is the economic development coordinator for the Town of Killingly and a resident of Voluntown who has worked on tourism and community development projects with The Last Green Valley over the years. Joan St. Ament is a vice-president with The Savings Institute and brings useful financial expertise to the organization. As an advocate for a healthy environment, Nancy Polydys has been an active volunteer with TLGV and has just completed TLGV Ranger training. Mr. Dufresne, a technical specialist with Southbridge Savings Bank, works in the northern area of The Last Green Valley and enjoys recreational camping in the southern parts of the region.
Also elected for a term of one year were the following officers: Bill Jobbagy, chairman from Coventry, P. Bradford Cheney, vice chairman from Woodstock, Elaine Knowlton, secretary from Brooklyn, and Darlene Stubbe, treasurer from Killingly.
TLGV is the grassroots nonprofit organization that works to enhance the region’s significant natural resources in the context of a vital economy and regional cultural identity.
It is the management entity for the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor, the last predominantly undeveloped green space in the coastal sprawl of the East Coast between Boston and Washington, D.C.