Scarborough Land Trust names director

SCARBOROUGH — The Scarborough Land Trust has named Kathy Mills as its new executive director.

Mills comes to SLT from Maine Audubon, where she has directed the grants program for seven years. Previous positions include public relations and fundraising at Maine College of Art and Bowdoin College. Mills is a founding board member of The Good Life Center at the homestead of Helen and Scott Nearing in Harborside. In 2003, she was an apprentice with John Bliss and Stacy Brenner at a farm in Cumberland. John and Stacy are the farmers at Broadturn Farm, owned by the land trust.

A graduate of Smith College, Mills is a Maine native and lives in Yarmouth. She will begin at SLT in late March.

Jack Anderson, president of the board of directors of land trust, said, “We are fortunate to have been able to recruit Kathy. Her skills and experience in fundraising, nonprofit administration, conservation and the farming community will be invaluable in helping SLT grow and move forward.”

“Scarborough has some extraordinary natural resources, and I’m thrilled to join an organization that is working to protect those resources and to connect more people to the land,” said Mills.

Kathy succeeds Marla Zando, who served the land trust for more than six years as its first paid staff member, first as stewardship coordinator and then as executive director. The land trust was founded in 1977 and has worked with the residents of Scarborough to protect more than 1,000 acres.

For more information about Scarborough Land Trust, including trail maps and news on upcoming events, visit www.scarboroughlandtrust.org or at the group’s table at the Scarborough Farmers’ Market.