Antrim
Antrim voters re-elected incumbent Bob Edwards for Select Board over challenger Richard Smolag and elected Helene Newbold as Treasurer in the town’s two contested races.
Edwards received 288 votes, and Smoleg, 73.
The race for Treasurer was very close, with Newbold pulling 187 votes, and Diane Chauncey, who recently retired from the position of Town Clerk, receiving 182.
At the polls on Tuesday, Smolag, who had never before run for town office, said he hoped Antrim voters “would ask themselves what they were getting for their tax dollars.”
Edwards said he would continue to advocate for the people of Antrim.
“We’ll keep looking at our expense and revenue, and we try to do the best we can to balance that out, and give people what they expect from their town,” he said.
In Antrim’s uncontested races, Sam Harding was elected as Water Commissioner, Martha Piniello as Cemetery Trustee, Annie Gilbert as Town Clerk, James Panico and Linda Tenney were elected to the Antrim Community Board, and Arthur Merrill was re-elected as Moderator. Bruce McGuffin was elected as Supervisor of the Checklist, Ken Rubin and Dennis Young were re-elected to the Planning Board. Michelle Caughey was elected as a write-in candidate to the Planning Board.
Jennifer Adams and Tim Morehouse were re-elected as Trustees of the Library. Katherine Foecking was re-elected to School Board, and Michael Connolly was elected as a Trustee of the Trust Fund.
Antrim voters also approved all proposed zoning ordinance, most of which were put forth to put Antrim in compliance with state law on ADU’s.
Amendment 3 will enable buildings in the town’s Village District to have mixed use, such a a housing unit over a store. Voters approved Amendment 4, which extends the period residents are permitted to reside in recreational vehicles from 21 days per year to 90 days per year, whether during construction or for recreational purposes.
Dublin
In Dublin’s only contested race in Tuesday’s election, Budget Committee write-in candidates Julie Venne and Steve Baldwin each won open seats, with 108 and 42 votes, respectively. K. Vanderbilt was also a write-in candidate but finished out of the running with 30 votes. Venne and Baldwin were elected for three-year terms.
Nancy Campbell was on the ballot unopposed for a one-year Budget Committee seat and won it with 237 votes.
The Dublin election saw 305 voters cast ballots out of 1,283 registered voters.
In other voting, Frank Rizzo took the open Select Board position, a three-year term, with 236 votes, while Sterling Abram remains as town moderator for another two years after receiving 285.
Sarah Wilcox earned 283 votes for town clerk, a three-year position, while Sarah Sangermano received 277 as supervisor of the checklist for six years.
Thomas Bator received 260 votes as trustee of trust funds, and Blake Anderson assumed the cemetery trustee position with 264, both for three-year terms.
Wallace Rowe and Linda Abram took two of the open Board of Library Trustees positions with 269 and 247 votes, respectively, and will serve three years.
Caleb Niemela earned 236 votes for the three-year Planning Board position.
Mary Armstrong took the open School Board position as a write-in candidate with 113 votes.
Warrant Articles 2, 3 and 4 were on the ballot and all were approved.
Dublin voters approved Francestown’s departure from the ConVal School District 164 to 124. For School District moderator, Edwards received 210 votes.
All 10 ballot articles were also approved.
Francestown
In Francestown, voters used Poll Pads, the town’s new electronic voting check-in machines, for the first time. According to poll volunteer Dave Delorey, the town received a grant for the machines. Delorey clarified that the machines are used to check voters in, not to count ballots.
“The town got a grant to pay for these machines, and this is the first election we’re using them. We’re going to decided if it’s going to work for us or not,” Delorey said.”We may need more machines. We’ll see.”
Francestown voters approved five changes to the zoning ordinance, which will bring Francestown zoning into compliance with state law, including an ordinance that would allow ADUs in existing buildings.
Francestown’s races for town office were uncontested. Charles Pyle was re-elected to the Select Board with 379 votes. Betsy Hardwick and Sarah Pyle were elected to the Planning Board, James D. St. Jean was elected to the Trustee of the Trust Funds, and Stephanie Griffin was elected as a Trustee of the Library. Thirteen write-in candidates, including President Donald J. Trump, received one vote each for Library Trustee.
Marilyn Vencel and Ellie Byers, who received 39 votes as a write -in, were elected as cemetery trustees. Michael J. Tartalis was elected as Supervisor of the Checklist, David Hanlon was elected at Fire Warden, and Laura Mafera was elected as representative to the ConVal School Board with 401 votes.
Greenfield
In Greenfield, poll volunteer Bruce Dodge said turnout was steady.
“We’ve been busy all day,” he said.
Greenfield’s town ballot contained several open slots, including candidates for Budget Committee, Planning Board, and Trustee of the Trust Funds.
George Rainier was re-elected to the Select Board with 224 votes.
The town’s Budget Committee still has two open one-year terms. Susan Stockwell was elected to a three-year term.
On the Planning Board, which had two open slots, Jim Fletcher and Iris Waite were elected as write-in candidates with 54 votes and 39 votes, respectively.
Fletcher was also elected as a write-in candidate for a three-year term as Cemetery Trustee with 58 votes.
Wendy Durrett and Jeb Streit were both elected as Trustees of the library with 174 votes and 59 votes, respectively.
Ellen Sanford was elected to a six-year term as Supervisor of Checklist, and Adele Hale was elected to Trustee of the Trust Funds.
Greenville
Charles Buttrick was elected to complete the remainder of the two-year term on the Select Board. He was previously appointed and currently serving in that position, and was officially elected with 214 votes.
Another Select Board seat, for a three-year term, had no candidates. Write-ins for the seat had a three-way tie with Marshall Buttrick, Margaret Bickford and Tom Falter, each receiving four votes.
Elisa Fitzgerald received 205 votes for treasurer; Eileen O’Grady received 208 votes for supervisor of the checklist; Daniel Sadkowski received 216 votes for cemetery trustee; Fred Floreth with 207 votes for trustee of the trust funds; Diana LeBlanc with 213 votes for supervisor of the checklist; and Marshall Buttrick received 217 votes for moderator.
Two seats for the Library Trustees had no candidates. Top write-ins were Natalie Klebes with 90 votes and Deb Walsh with 23 votes.
Hancock
In the only contested race in Hancock’s election Tuesday, Patricia MacFarlane won a seat as cemetery trustee, with 202 votes, while challenger Matthew Simmons received 161.
A total of 418 residents voted, out of 1,422 registered in Hancock.
Voters elected Peter Webster to the Select Board with 373 votes and Thomas Shevenell continues as a member of the Water Commission, with 392.
The position of library trustee went to Sadie Faber, who received 388 votes, and David Huntington was chosen as trustee of trust funds with 383 votes.
Joan Joseph was re-elected as town clerk with 396 votes and Richard Haskins remains town moderator with 384 votes.
Supervisor of the checklist went to Catherine Closter with 378 votes, while 12 voters wrote in Jacqueline Brittain for the common commissioner position.
All positions are three-year terms, with the exception of moderator, which is two years.
Voters also approved all the town’s ballot warrant articles. Most notably, Article 6, which prohibits Keno, received 332 votes to 43 opposed, and Article 7, which prohibits games of chance, passed 306 to 90.
For the Contoocook Valley School District, Hancock residents selected the unopposed Robert Edwards as moderator with 318 votes.
The town also approved nine of 10 district warrant articles. Article 8, concerning Francestown leaving the school district, failed 243 – 167.
Jaffrey
Charles Turcotte was re-elected for another term on the Select Board in an uncontested race, with 912 votes.
All races this year were uncontested, with single candidates for single seats. John Stone received 972 votes for library trustee; Nancy Belletete received 961 votes for trustee of the trust funds; Kathleen Devlin received 924 votes for supervisor of the checklist; Sandi Stewart received 948 votes for treasurer; Paul Hutchinson received 938 votes for moderator; and Kelly Rollins received 1,032 votes for town clerk.
The two proposed zoning amendments on the ballot both passed, with strong support.
The first amendment consolidated the existing downtown district and the general business A district. Voters supported the move in a 770-251 vote.
The second amendment was also about consolidating districts, this one merging the existing residential districts into one, with the exception of Jaffrey Center, which will remain a separate residential district with separate standards. Rules vary based on whether the residence has access to town water and sewer, which would allow for smaller setbacks and frontage. Voters supported this amendment in a 696-330 vote.
Lyndeborough
With no contested races on the ballot, 278 voters cast ballots in Lyndeborough Tuesday out of 1,275 registered to vote.
Shane Meltzer was elected as selectman for three years with 214 votes, while Newton will remain town moderator for two years with 204.
Virginia “Ginny” Chrisenton received 222 votes as trustee of cemeteries and Ann Harkleroad, 238, as library trustee, both for three year terms.
Jessie Salisbury remained as supervisor of the checklist for another six years with 237 votes, while Thomas Chrisenton and Steve Brooks, as a write-in, were elected to Zoning Board of Adjustment for three years with 167 and 5 votes, respectively.
Voters wrote three people in for the open three-year Budget Committee positions. Helen Woods, Brooks and Jim Sullivan won with 28, 11 and 8 votes each. Brooks also won the two-year Budget Committee seat with 21 votes.
John Palmer, a write-in for trustee of trust funds, received 5 votes.
Voters also approved all seven balloted warrant articles.
For Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District’s open seats, voters chose Newton as district moderator and Budget Committee member with 184 and 171 votes.
They elected Lavallee and Darlene Anzalone as School Board members with 195 and 188 votes.
Kathleen McClure and Anna Meigs ran as write-ins for the Budget Committee and School Board. McClure received 51 votes and Meigs received 65.
Mason
Select Board members Kate Batcheller and Antje Skorupan will continue in their roles on the Select Board in Mason, after Tuesday’s elections.
All races this year were uncontested in Mason. Batcheller received 187 votes for a three-year seat on the Select Board to reprise her role. Skorupan, who was appointed to a Select Board seat earlier this year, was officially elected to complete the rest of the term, which will be for one-year, with 171 votes.
In other positions this year, Dotsie Millbrandt received 190 votes for a two-year term as moderator; and Kim Hemmer received 182 votes for a six-year term as supervisor of the checklist.
Several seats had no filed candidates. Winners by write-in were Elena Kolbenson with 26 votes for Library Trustee, Jon Jonis with 14 votes for Trustee of Cemeteries, Erica Rowell with 9 votes for Trustee of the Trust Funds for a three-year term and Jeff Partridge with four votes for Trustee of the Trust Funds for a one-year term.
Sharon
There were no contested races in this year’s town elections. Joel Patterson was elected to the Select Board with 71 votes. Susan Bowles was elected as treasurer with 73 votes and Tim Conner was elected by write-in to the audit board with 12 votes. Jeff Osgood received 72 votes for trustee of the trust funds, Beth Fernald received 72 votes for moderator and James Fredrickson received 72 votes for the Sharon School board representative.
Voters also approved a zoning ordinance amendment, 73-4. The amendment adds a table of contents and makes clerical corrections to formatting and grammar. It also updates the town’s accessory dwelling unit ordinance to comply with new state law requiring towns to allow detached accessory dwelling units.
Temple
Temple saw 260 of 1,071 registered voters at the polls March 10.
Temple had no contested positions for Tuesday’s election.
Phil Lauriat received 236 votes for the two-year town moderator spot and Clayton Lennartz, 213, for the open three-year Select Board position.
The two open Planning Board seats went to Randall Martin and Kent Perry with 225 and 201 votes respectively, both for three years.
Timothy Fiske and William Letendre received 229 and 206 votes for two of the three open Budget Advisory Committee spots, while Vivian Wills took the cemetery trustee position with 236 votes. Letendre also received 220 votes for trustee of the trust funds. All four positions are three-year terms.
One of the two open three-year library trustee positions went to Nicole Concordia with 234 votes; the other went to write-in Diane Reese with 11.
Both Lynessa Huntley and Richard Redding were elected to the Zoning Board of Adjustment with 219 and 203 votes, both for three years.
Christopher Curtis and Luke Peterson took the one-year and three-year fire engineer positions with 235 and 233 votes respectively.
Write-in candidates for supervisor of the checklist and Budget Advisory Committee were Heidi Thibodeau with 54 votes and Ted Petro with 19 votes. Thibodeau will serve six years and Petro, one year.
Voters approved all of Temple’s eight proposed zoning amendments as well as ConVal’s 10 warrant articles. They approved the open enrollment article 167 to 89 and the Francestown leaving the district 128 to 115.
The town also elected Robert Edwards as district moderator with 186 votes.
Wilton
Joanna Eckstrom won a seat on Wilton’s Sewer Commission Tuesday in the only contested race on the ballot. Eckstrom received 182 votes for the three-year position, topping Jessica McGravey, who received 129.
A total of 379 people cast ballots out of 2,910 registered voters in Wilton.
Rebecca Hazen won a position as cemetery trustee with 324 votes, while 333 voters re-elected William Keefe for two years as moderator.
The four Planning Board positions went to John Horsley (269 votes), Matthew Fish (261), Kenneth Cadrain (268) and Christopher Lepkowski (258). Horsley and Fish will serve three years, while Cadrain and Lepkowski will serve two.
Kermit Williams was re-elected for the three-year Select Board position with 290 votes while Lori Rolke took the six-year position as supervisor of the checklist with 318.
McGravey was elected town treasurer for one year with 298 votes, while David Miller received 315 for the three-year trustee of trust funds seat.
Hal Mapes received 314 votes for the open Water Commission seat, a three-year position, and 332 voters elected Alison Meltzer for library trustee.
Of the eight warrant articles proposed, voters approved seven. Warrant Article 4, a zoning ordinance amendment disallowing agricultural uses other than tilling of soil and raising crops outside the General Residence and Agriculture District, failed 115 to 259 votes.
The town also voted on Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative School District positions.
Robert Newton earned 313 votes for moderator and 303 voters re-elected Brianne Lavallee as a School Board member. Robert Silva received 311 votes for a Budget Committee position.
Editor’s note: this story has been updated to include Town of Sharon voting results.