By Paul Sylvain

Residents in Machias and neighboring communities awoke Tuesday morning to the tragic news of the sudden passing of the Shiretown’s energetic and much loved Town Manager Bill Kitchen. 

Kitchen, who passed away sometime Monday, Sept. 9,  will be remembered for his tireless devotion and efforts to help promote and grow the town that he so clearly loved. He was Machias’ biggest cheerleader and will be sorely missed.

Besides his work as town manager, Kitchen served the town as a selectman and firefighter. Before that, from 2014 to 2016, Kitchen was a regular contributor for The Machias Valley News Observer. The MVNO wishes to extend our prayers and heartfelt sympathy to Bill’s family.

Further details were not available at presstime, however we will have a full retrospective feature in next week’s paper about Bill and his immeasurable impact on Machias.