Annie Reed appointed Town Clerk

The Hurley Town Board has appointed Deputy Town Clerk Annie Reed to serve as Town Clerk for the remainder of 2023.

The vote on Tuesday, June 6, 2023, to appoint Reed was 3-0. (Two board members were absent.)

Reed (pictured) succeeds Judy Mayhon, who died on Friday, June 2, after a long illness. Mayhon had been Town Clerk since January 2008.

Reed joined the Town Hall staff in January 2022 as executive assistant to Town Supervisor Melinda McKnight and became a Deputy Town Clerk later in the year. She served in the Town Clerk’s capacity during Mayhon’s illness.

Reed was born in Macon, Ga., and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communication, with a minor in scientific technical communication, from Portland State University in Oregon and worked in university administration positions at Texas A&M/Corpus Christi and the University of Texas at Austin until her retirement about 10 years ago.

Reed and her husband, Michael Goss, a Hudson Valley native, moved to West Hurley in 2014 – having left Texas “to escape the heat,” she said. After moving here, Reed worked at Woodstock Yoga for several years.

Reed said the Town of Hurley is her “favorite place” to live and that she’ll “never leave.”

She and her husband have two children, two grandchildren and a dog.

Reed said it was a “pleasure” working with Mayhon and that she’s “deeply saddened” by the former clerk’s passing.