UpdatedWed, May 5, 2021 at 9:02 am ET
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Danvers residents went to the polls on Tuesday after two weeks of mail-in and early voting. Find out what they decided. (Patch Graphics)
DANVERS, MA Gardner Trask claimed victory in his quest for a sixth term on the Danvers Select Board and Matthew Duggan earned the second Select Board seat, while Robin Doherty and Alice Campbell won the two School Committee seats up for grabs, according to unofficial results Tuesday night.
Trask faced three other challengers in his bid for another three years.
Trask tallied 1,444 votes (25.4 percent), with Duggan second at 1,177 (20.7 percent). Timothy Donahue third at 1,093 (19.3 percent) and Richard Bettencourt fourth at 1,085 (19.1 percent. There were 865 blanks and 10 write-ins.
Season ticket holders got different lists of potential names for the team.
Sum Mehrnama wasn’t happy with the 10 name options he got to vote on.
“The new names were not ones that I cared for at all. I think there was one that was Washington, 32, FC, which I’m guessing means 32 football clubs,” he said,
Fan Ted Abela said he would like to stay away from anything with the word red in it.
“Let’s try to be original versus maybe trying to appease some fans so you can potentially keep the fight song,” Abela said, adding that names, such as the Washington Monarchs, the Washington Swifts or the Washington Rubies, made “absolutely no sense” to him.