UpdatedWed, May 5, 2021 at 4:44 pm ET
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Kate Poverman will take over for Town Meeting Moderator Sandy Gadsby. (Jenna Fisher/ Patch)
BROOKLINE, MA Brookline elected its first female Town Moderator in recent memory and a challenger ousted a Select Board incumbent during town elections Tuesday.
Kate Poverman will take over for Town Meeting Moderator Sandy Gadsby, who announced ahead of the election that he would step down after some three decades leading the town legislative branch s biannual meeting. Kate, like so many in this community, cares so much about Brookline and is honored to be the next Moderator, her campaign manager Rebecca Bueno said. She is ready to get to work, and is committed to making sure Town Meeting has the benefit of sound information and diverse perspectives, and is a welcoming place to all.
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Brookline’s town election got off to a cold and wet start Tuesday amid a heavy rainstorm, with early voting and mail-in ballots contributing to quiet polling places.
Through 7 p.m., the town had seen 6,937 votes cast so far in the May 4 Town Election, including early in-person votes and mail-in ballots tabulated at individual precincts, according to Jeff Nutting, a consultant in the Town Clerk’s office who has led Brookline elections during Town Clerk Pat Ward’s leave.
“In person voting today so far is extremely light,” Nutting wrote in an email. “I am not sure if the weather is affecting turnout.”