Winter in Wiscasset isn’t Florida, where Don Gerrish has been spending time lately. But Maine’s prettiest village offered a sunny Monday morning with fresh-fallen snow for Gerrish’s start as interim town manager. His return to work at the Wiscasset municipal building on February 10 came four years after he served the same temp job for the town.

Gerrish, 63, of Brunswick, said he'll be getting some direction from selectmen about the next year's budget, and working again with some of the same staffers in place when he was interim manager from January 2010 to July 2010.

“I'm looking forward to it. I had a great time the last time,” he said in a telephone interview from Florida on February 6. He's scheduled some return trips to the Sunshine State around his work schedule in the coming months.

Gerrish has worked in municipal government for 38 years, including a decade as Gorham's town manager and then two decades as Brunswick's town manager, ending in 2009.

In recent years, he has taken several interim manager slots and helped those towns find their permanent hires; he said he's excited about being back to work in Wiscasset, but will not seek to become its next manager.

“I’m not interested in full-time,” Gerrish said. “No, I’ve done my full-time, but I still think I have something to give, to help make sure things go smoothly.

“I'm there to just help the community,” he said.

Gerrish is with the Eaton-Peabody consulting firm that Wiscasset has hired for its town manager search. Laurie Smith left to become town manager in Kennebunkport.