Ryan wins Select Board seat in Plainfield

Staff Report

Published: 05-08-2024 2:01 PM

PLAINFIELD — Polly Ryan is the town’s newest Select Board member after winning Saturday’s election over Ed Morann by 89 votes to 72, Town Clerk Ruth Osgood reported.

In the other contested position, Erik Burcroff was elected tree warden, with 113 votes against Timothy Crowningshield’s 41. Steve Nartowicz won election to an open seat on the Board of Health with 139 votes.

Town Meeting voters tabled a proposal to amend the Mohawk Trail Regional School District agreement and other related questions after it was determined that mistakes were made on the warrant, Osgood said. Those questions will be deferred to a special Town Meeting in June.

Voters approved the town’s $3.54 million budget, including $1,372,219 in education spending, and all other spending items on the warrant.

By wide margins, voters also OK’d two ballot questions calling for two loans, for the dump truck and firetruck, that were approved at last year’s Town Meeting to be exempt from the provisions of Proposition 2½.

Incumbents reelected were Claude Dupont, Board of Assessors; Sandra Morann, library trustee; and Brian Hawthorne, moderator.

— James Pentland

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