New Transfer Station attendant Tim Garcia took over from Keith Larsen just before Christmas.

Tim knows a lot about fishing. He and his wife Carol arrived in Town last June, after he retired from his former life of about 35 years as a lobster and shell fisherman out of Warham at the northern end of Buzzard's Bay on the Cape.

He had moved to Wareham with his family when he was 12 years old. When he was older, he hit the road with a rock band. After a couple of years as a roadie, he figured out he was wasting his time and went to work in construction in Florida.

When Tim was 24, his father called to let him know he had gotten his commercial fishing license and he asked Tim to join him. Tim went to work as a lobsterman. In the late 1970s and early '80s, when the lobster industry was hurt by shell rot disease, his father gave up the boat and retired.

Tim got his own boat and went back into shell fishing again, working on his own for the next 12 years.

When Tim gave up fishing as a livelihood, he and Carol decided they needed a change of environment and more space. Initially, they thought they'd move to Maine, where Carol has family but when she saw an online listing for a house on North Main Street/Route 8, across from the Farmington River, they decided to drive over to see it. Carol initially loved the house, while Tim had misgivings about the traffic on Rt. 8 and worried that his dog Duffy might be hit by a passing truck. They bought the house, and it turned out that traffic isn't so bad and Duffy is OK so far.

Realizing he had some free time, Tim answered the Town's ad for a Transfer Station attendant he saw in The Sandisfield Times. He applied at Town Hall and was hired.