FAIRFIELD – Four new trustees and two returning members were sworn in by Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap at a meeting of the Maine Community College System board of trustees. The meeting was held at Kennebec Valley Community College recently.

The new trustees are Doris Belisle-Bonneau, an educator from Lewiston; Shepard Lee, chairman of Lee Auto Malls and a resident of Westbrook; Merle R. Nelson, a former legislator, businesswoman and educator from Falmouth; and Andrea Watkins, student representative, from Windsor, a recent graduate of KVCC.

The returning members are Cynthia Phinney, an organizer with Local 1837 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and a resident of New Sharon, and Brian Thayer, president and CEO of Lavalley Lumber Co. in Sanford, and a resident of Cumberland.