Daily Hampshire Gazette - Plainfield voters will consider $3.5M budget at Town Meeting on Saturday; new Select Board member to be elected gazettenet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettenet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Town caucus set in PlainfieldPLAINFIELD The town caucus for the nomination of candidates for elected office will be held Wednesday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 348 Main St.Nominations will be accepted for the following positions, with.
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.
Plainfield election has races for Select Board, tree warden
STAFF FILE PHOTO STAFF FILE PHOTO
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.”