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Mashpee voters opted for continuity at Saturday s annual town election, as John Cotton and Thomas O Hara were reelected to new terms on the Board of Selectmen. Cotton, the board s current chairman, led all candidates in the three-way race for two seats on the board with 1,136 votes. O Hara, the board s vice chairman, received 932 votes. Marie Stone garnered 861 votes in her bid for one of the board s two seats. Voters also passed 1,445-217 the lone question on the ballot Saturday seeking a debt exclusion to fund the first phase of the town s wastewater treatment project. At a cost of $54 million, the first phase calls for construction of a new wastewater treatment plant adjacent to the town’s solid waste transfer station off Asher’s Path, as well as sewering from Butler Lane and Drew Lane south to Yardarm Drive and along Route 28 and Quinaquisset Avenue. ....