Hilltown election news
Three Hilltown communities held their annual town elections on Saturday.
In Goshen, 62 of the town’s 803 registered voters showed up to the polls, a 7.7% turnout.
The only contested race was for Chesterfield-Goshen School Committee, where incumbent Barton Gage beat challenger Carla Raymond by a vote of 33 to 21.
Voters wrote in candidates for open positions on the ballot. Corey Carvalho was elected to the Planning Board for a five-year term as a write-in candidate, while Sabrina McGill was elected as a write-in candidate for library trustee, and Mary Packard was elected to a two-year term on the Finance Committee as a write in. A four-year term on the Planning Board, meanwhile, has a three-way tie of write-in candidates: David Packard, Mark Kincade and Keith Wright. Each got two votes.
Police pay, Jake Brakes on Plainfield TM agenda
Published: 4/30/2021 5:52:50 PM
PLAINFIELD Residents will vote on a 32-item Annual Town Meeting warrant this Saturday, which will include a more than 34% increase in police pay and a proposal to restrict the use of so-called Jake Brakes in town.
Town Meeting will take place at the Alden Pavilion on 304 Main St. beginning at 1 p.m.
The total proposed budget is $2,239,062, an increase of 8.3% from the $2,067,495 appropriated for fiscal year 2021.
Within the operating budget is a proposal to increase total police pay by $27,619, a 34.4% increase, for a total of $107,892.
Last year, the increase to police pay supported by the Board of Selectmen and Finance Committee was voted down at Town Meeting. In the wake of this, the Plainfield Police Ad-Hoc Working Group was formed to examine policing in Plainfield and its costs.
Plainfield election has races for Select Board, tree warden
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Published: 4/30/2021 2:56:49 PM
PLAINFIELD – Plainfield’s annual town election on Saturday features races for the Board of Selectmen and tree warden.
In-person voting will take place from noon to 6 p.m. at Town Hall.
In the race for the Board of Selectmen, incumbent Hilary Weeks is being challenged by Benjamin Gillett. And for tree warden, incumbent Robert Mellstrom will face off against Claude Dupont, who has previously held the job.
Weeks, who chairs the board and was first elected to the board in 2017, said that she’s running for re-election “because my town needs me.”
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