Our team of volunteers
Joyce Anderson, originally from Maine, has 35 years’ experience as a worksheet creator, having taught language in the Boston area. Her goal is to entertain young and old alike with a variety of puzzles for old-school, paper-and-pencil fun. She created this month’s Neighborhoods of Phippsburg puzzle.
Diane Atwood is Director of the Albert F. Totman Public Library. She grew up in Bath, spent childhood summers in her family’s log cabin on the New Meadows River, and moved to Phippsburg in 2021 with her family to be near the river again.
Maggie Caldwell is a former magazine and newspaper journalist who now owns Kineo Strategies, a communications consultancy for environmental, health and clean energy organizations. In the precious few moments when she’s not doting on her two little kids, she enjoys playing soccer, hiking or sidling up to the bar at her husband’s restaurant, Spinneys on Popham Beach.
Robert Cooper has spent 30 years as digital product designer in Arlington, Virginia. He is a lifelong seasonal resident of Phippsburg, about to move here full time. He is a fisherman and boating enthusiast who now focuses on painting scenes of Maine’s coastline.
Susan Ellis retired to Phippsburg in 2020 after a long career specializing in interactive communications and writing for the local press. She teaches sewing, makes her own clothes, plays the fiddle, and generally enjoys the nature and community she has found in Maine.
Lydia Gregoret moved to Phippsburg full time in 2021 after retiring in 2020 from careers in science, homemaking and audiology. She has written for scientific journals, small magazines and newsletters. Lydia especially enjoys noticing and documenting nature.
Avery Hunt enjoyed a long career in publishing (including Newsday, LA Times, Business Week, Newsweek and Scholastic). She and her late husband moved back to Maine full-time in 2001. Locally, she has written for the Coastal Journal, Times Record, Maine Seniors Magazine and the Maine TImes.
Elna Joseph-Bijhouwer, a lifelong resident with past involvement in several Town organizations and newsletters. She continues a family legacy of land preservation with the Phippsburg Land Trust.
Adam Kernan-Schloss is on the town’s Marine Resources Working Group and on the boards of the Totman Public Library and CARES. Before retiring here, he ran a communications-editorial services-graphic design company in Arlington, VA for 40 years.
Bob Keyes is the former arts reporter for the Portland Press Herald/ Maine Sunday Telegram, and currently serves as editorial director at Colby College and chair of the Maine Arts Commission.
Jeffrey Nordlund, a journalist for 40 years in Chicago, moved to Phippsburg in 2018. In addition to his work with the Observer, he is a novelist.
Teresa Oelmann moved to Phippsburg in 2020 and currently edits/writes the Phippsburg Community Garden Newsletter and manages Totman Public Library’s social media.
Elisabeth Paine is co-chair of CARES, president of Citizens for Squirrel Point (the group restoring the lighthouse across from Phippsburg Center), and volunteers to manage the flower gardens at the elementary school.
Rachael Shiebler has lived across the country and traveled extensively managing properties for her business, Peak-Estate. But after visiting Popham Beach since age 11, she is relocating here permanently to be closer to family and give back to the community by highlighting the individuals who make the area so special.
We’re eager for others to join us. Please reach out to any one of us…or email .