By WXTK News
A controversial Select Board race in Bourne is over.
Mary Jane Mastrangelo and incumbent Jared MacDonald were the winners of a five-candidate field in Tuesday’s election.
Incumbent James Potter leveled various accusations of impropriety against Mastrangelo in her capacity as the chair of the Bourne Finance Committee, which led the Select Board to hire a special counsel to resolve the matter.
Potter came in third place in yesterday s election.
There were also Select Board races in three other Cape Cod towns yesterday.
In Falmouth, a vacant seat was picked up by Onjalé Scott Price.
In Yarmouth, incumbent Daniel Horgan and newcomer Peter Q. Smith were the winners.
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Education: 5-year Professional Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Roger Williams University
Public service: Bourne Board of Selectmen, 2018-present; Bourne School Building Committee, 2015-present; Wareham Board of Selectmen 2006-2009. Public service and giving back to the community is a passion of mine and one I have been proud to be involved with for over 25 years.
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I have served on the board for the last three years, and I have been proud and grateful to represent Bourne. This board has been highly professional and a pleasure to work with. We have tackled all of the challenges that have come our way, together. There are several challenges ahead for our town including wastewater, transportation infrastructure, development, and housing, and I would like to continue to keep our community on the proactive and innovative approach that we have initiated.
BOURNE Wastewater infrastructure and how to fund it, as well as the process for hiring a new police chief, topped the list of articles before Bourne residents at the annual and special town meetings Monday night.
Just over 200 people showed up to vote on the 20-articles slate at the spring sessions at the Bourne Middle School gym.
Water protection fund
In an 80-19 vote, town meeting voters gave permission to the Board of Selectmen to discuss updating the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund. Updating the fund would allow grants awarded the town to be used to help pay for costs associated with its intermunicipal sewer agreement with Wareham.