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Photo Derek Burritt
Jeanne Maclauchlan’s voting-day efforts didn’t sway enough voters to win her the race. |
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Photo Derek Burritt
Clerk Barbara Atwood cranked every one of the 598 votes into the hundred-year-old voting box Monday. |
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Nickerson wins
Banner Daily Update posted Tuesday, May 1
By Derek Burritt
Banner Staff
WELLFLEET—The only contested race iin the annual town election this year was a sweep, and voters brushed the idea of a street sweeper under the carpet.
Roughly 100 voters an hour passed through the Council on Aging (COA) Monday to cast their ballots for annual town elections, representing 24 percent of registered voters.
Jeanne Maclauchlan stood by her decorated car and colorful posted signs at the entrance to the COA and waved to voters as they drove in to vote. But, her efforts weren’t enough to topple incumbent Marianne Nickerson for the town collector position. Nickerson won 465 votes to Maclauchlan’s 133. It was the only race that every one of the 598 voters who showed participated in.
The question of whether or not the town should purchase a new street sweeper drew votes from 569 voters, and it was defeated by a narrow margin of 19 votes. Voters were favorable to a Proposition 2_ override of $110,000 to fund the town’s continued participation in the state Estuaries Project as well as spending $80,000 to cover redesign costs for the new fire station.
The uncontested races left Harry Terkanian as town moderator, Jerry Houk and Michael May as selectmen, Dawn Rickman as town clerk/treasurer, Margaret Ward-Donoghue on the school committee, Jonathan Porteus on the regional school committee, Bonnie Robicheau as cemetery commissioner, Diane Reynolds and Margaret Stolnacke as library trustees and Elaine Mcllroy and Judy Taylor on the housing authority. There was one write-in candidate on the ballot, Michael Parlante, who lost to Charles Frazier for constable 13 to 519.
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Apr 26th, 2007