Main Street Hires New Manager

A little more than three months since was fired, Havre de Grace Main Street has hired a new manager.

Erika Quesenbery, most recently the town administrator of Port Deposit, will become manager of Main Street on July 18.

Main Street is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization that, according to its website, focuses on “revitalization, business development, arts and entertainment, and business retention in the historical downtown district.”

The manager is the only paid position in the organization.

In an email to Main Street members—including Patch—organization president Billee Smith wrote:

"Erika comes to us offering vast experience in grant writing, fund raising, historian, economic development, curator and author. I am sure that you will share our excitement in welcoming Erika on board and will look forward to having her work with our board, members of HDG Main Street and the City of Havre de Grace."

According to Quesenbery’s Facebook profile, she worked for five years as the curator at the Paw Paw Museum in Port Deposit before spending more than two years working in economic development for Cecil County. She served as Port Deposit’s town administrator from February to July of this year.

She’s a member of Harford Technical High School’s class of 1987, and Harford Community College’s class of 1989, according to her Facebook page.

Her hiring ends a three-month stretch of change for the organization, which recently underwent a change in command. Smith, previously the vice president, was . Charlie Hiner replaced Smith as vice president.

Smith had been serving as acting president as president Bill Price was in Florida for business. Price , but retained a seat on the Main Street Board.