PORTLAND – Patricia Dano has joined the Maine Island Trail Association as office manager. Dano is a graduate of Temple University and brings to MITA more than 10 years of administrative experience with nonprofit institutions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She moved to Maine earlier this year and lives on Little Sebago Lake in Windham.

The Maine Island Trail Association manages more than 150 private and public sites along the Maine coast. More information is available at www.mita.org.