Everyone's a Winner in Williamstown RacesBy Stephen Dravis, Williamstown Correspondent
11:29PM / Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — It was an uneventful town election day on Tuesday, with all of the candidates on the ballot easily winning their non-races.
Jane Patton won a seat on the Board of Selectmen, which also will see the return of incumbent Ronald Turbin. Patton garnered 748 and Turbin accumulated 788. Blank entries in the selectmen's vote totaled 569, and five voters turned in ballots with write-in candidates.
One thousand, fifty-five voters took ballots in the town election, which was held in conjunction with the statewide primary for the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Ten more ballots — 1,065 -— were taken in the U.S. Senate primary. Rep. Edward Markey was the favorite among Williamstown voters in the Democratic primary, with 820 of 942 votes cast. In the Republican primary, Gabriel Gomez carried the Village Beautiful with 72 of the 123 GOP ballots.
In the town election, J. Adam Filson won an uncontested race for town moderator, while incumbents Valerie Hall and Dan Caplinger were returned to the Williamstown Elementary School Committee along with newcomer Richard Reynolds.
Carol Stein-Payne will join the Planning Board when it reconvenes after the May 21 annual town meeting, and James Gazzaniga will continue as the town's representative to the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School Committee (McCann Tech).
Four candidates, including three incumbents, won uncontested races for spots on the David and Joyce Milne Public Library Board of Trustees. In a possible sign of voter disinterest, the blank votes in the library trustees vote (1,114) easily outpaced the number garnered by the leading vote-getter, incumbent Peter Mehlin (835).
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