MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Area Town Hall elected new board members and determined its slate of 2017 officers at its meeting last week.
The group held its usual monthly meeting on Thursday at the Middletown Senior and Community Center.
On the agenda was the election of this year's board.
Nominated over the last two meetings of 2016 were then-Chair Fletcher Thornton, Marlene Elder and Lisa Kaplan.
At the Thursday meeting, Thornton was reelected, and Kaplan, the executive director of the Middletown Art Center, was elected to the board for the first time.
The board's leadership also was determined at the Thursday meeting.
Last year's vice chair, Claude Brown, will serve as chair in the coming year, with Linda Diehl-Darms elected vice chair and Thornton to act as secretary. The fifth board member is Gregg Van Oss.
The Middletown Area Town Hall, which marked its 10th anniversary in December, meets on the second Thursday of every month.
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New Middletown Area Town Hall Board members elected
- Elizabeth Larson