BANGOR – Penobscot County employees were commended Tuesday for their efforts during the search for a missing elderly woman two weeks ago in Bradley.

According to Chief Deputy Glenn Ross of the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department, members of his department and the county’s Emergency Management Agency came through by providing food, drinks and other comforts to the more than 100 searchers who took part in the two-day search after other arrangements unexpectedly fell through.

During a meeting Tuesday morning, Ross told the Penobscot County commissioners that the employees’ achievements were brought to his attention by Warden Daniel Carroll of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The group included Lt. Rich Clukey, Sgt. Ty Babb and Capt. Cheryl Gallant of the sheriff’s department and Barbara Cox of the county’s Emergency Management Agency.

Commissioner Peter Baldacci, chairman of the three-member governing panel, thanked the employees for their actions, noting that their efforts reflected well on the county.

Ross said that county staffers, on no notice, were able to obtain donations of sandwiches and other food, candy for searchers to carry while in the woods, bottled water and other beverages. In addition, the cook at the county jail baked several cakes. The supplies were delivered to the search’s command center in Bradley in a county passenger van.

The county also was prepared to lend the cots used by participants in the county’s educational and community service program for violators of the state’s drunken driving laws, Ross said.