Sat, 12/30/2017 - 6:15pm

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Candice Richards, assistant administrator for Knox EMA, and Wendy Galvin, assistant administrator for Knox County. (Photos by Chris Wolf)

Wendy Galvin at her desk

Candice Richards, assistant administrator for Knox EMA, and Wendy Galvin, assistant administrator for Knox County. (Photos by Chris Wolf)

Wendy Galvin at her desk

ROCKLAND – Knox County has new administrative assistants for the new year. Wendy Galvin, of Northport, took over the duties of Candice Richards at the Knox County Courthouse. Richards has moved to the administrative assistant to the EMA director at the county's Emergency Management Agency office, on Park Street.

Galvin worked for MBNA for 11 years as an administrative assistant and decided, after taking some time off, that she would like to have a career again and that was what made her decide to apply for the job.

Richards said that she had been interested in emergency management for some time.

"I decided to go back to school and get my master’s in Homeland Security and Emergency Management," she said. "I graduated last year and when EMA's current administrative assistant, Donna Allen, retired I applied for the job."

Both Galvin and Richards said they will be happy in their new positions.

Galvin said she spent a week with Richards at the courthouse before taking over.

Richards had been administrative assistant for Knox County for 10.5 years. Andy Hart, the county's current administrator, has been at his post for nine and a half years.