TOPSHAM
The public is invited to a going away reception taking place Monday afternoon for Ruth Lyons, who is retiring at the end of the month as town clerk after serving the town for 24 years.
The reception will be from 1 to 4 p.m. in the lobby of the tax office within the municipal building, located at 100 Main St. Coffee, punch and cake will be served.
Lyons said earlier this year, after announcing her intended retirement, that she started with the town on Oct. 15, 1990, as an assistant tax collector and nine months later was promoted to deputy clerk. Only a year later she became town clerk. Ten years ago, she began running both the tax collector and town clerk offices.
Lyons was chosen Town Clerk of the Year for 2013 by the Maine Town and City Clerks’ Association, an affiliate of the Maine Municipal Association.
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