Rod Sell finds retirement trail in building real ones

Rod Sell, center, speaks at a Build Lebanon Trails event last year. – File Photo

Rod Sell has always enjoyed the outdoors – cycling, hiking, that sort of thing. But as he retired as manager of Lebanon’s city Maintenance Division, he’d realized that he needed to plan for the future, including his.

That’s roughly how Sell, 72, got involved in Build Lebanon Trails, which helped start and for which he’s become a prominent leader and spokesman since the nonprofit group was founded in 2005.

Sell didn’t grow up in Lebanon,…