CHARLEMONT — After serving on the Selectboard for five years, Beth Bandy has stepped down.
In her letter of resignation, Bandy said she was leaving to focus on work and personal commitments, which had become increasingly time-consuming.
“I was proud to serve on the Selectboard for five years,” she said.
Bandy was first elected in 2013, after serving as a Hawlemont School Committee member and that board’s chair. During her years on the Selectboard, that board organized a Small Town Summit, where town officials met to discuss mutual problems — among them, lack of broadband access, escalating rural school costs and how to stimulate economic growth in rural communities.
Last year, Bandy and former Charlemont selectman Toby Gould turned the Small Town Summit into a nonprofit agency called “Rural Commonwealth,” which has organized an agricultural summit and other programs of common interest to rural communities.
Bandy and her fellow Selectboard members could not be reached for comment Thursday.