PARIS — Selectmen appear to have found a long-term solution for the Norway-Paris Community TV board after appointing a 16-year-old and a former board member.

Selectmen on Tuesday unanimously voted to add Charles Rowe, an Oxford Hills High School student, and Richard Little.

Rowe, 16, succeeds Rick Kimball and Little takes his old seat back. They join Janet Jamison as the town’s representatives on the board.

Rowe, who is studying advanced communications at the high school, will be a nonvoting member until his 17 birthday, when state law will allow him to have voting rights, Town Manager Amy Bernard said.

“(They’re) all excellent candidates,” she said.

Following a controversial period, Little resigned in January for personal reasons, saying he was “extremely unhappy” with the direction the board was headed in.

Tasked with overseeing the public-broadcast TV station, the six-member NPC-TV board is made up of three people from each town, appointed by their respective selectmen.

For a number of years, the board was inactive, unable to muster a quorum to conduct official business. Last September, a full, newly reinvigorated board set out to expand local content and engage the community.

The appointments look to have quelled a turbulent period, after allegations of a physical altercation between two board members arose at a Paris selectmen’s meeting in January.

The fallout of that meeting — including allegations of mismanagement and a hostile working environment — eventually led to four board members resigning and a fifth’s appointment being rescinded.

The station’s manager, Steve Galvin, said a fully-staffed board would be a boon for the station.

“We’ve got a good group of people who know how a good board should function. That’s a huge step,” Galvin said.

Galvin said Rowe would be an important addition to the board, giving the station a connection to the high school.

“What a great opportunity for a teenager to sit on the board and see how it functions,” he said.

Galvin noted that Little’s departure had been a great loss to the station’s granting-writing process.

“He was the impetus for getting the sports going. When he left, that went away.”

The station, which is jointly operated by the two towns, has a $85,000 operating budget, funded through a $1.44 monthly charge on Time Warner cable subscribers’ bills. It doesn’t use any tax money, Galvin said.

The station is believed to reach around 3,500 households.

As an educational nonprofit, the station’s five digital cameras, small studio and professional editing equipment are all open for the public’s use.