CUMMINGTON — Longtime Select Board member Monica Vandoloski was re-elected by a landslide vote of 163-18, besting challenger James Drawe in Monday’s town election.
Vandoloski has been on the Select Board for the last nine years and had previously served on the board for a 12-year period.
“I am very grateful to all the voters and for the number of voters that turned out,” she said. “Last year we had 25 people show up.”
Drawe, of 28 Wilder Road, had served as a selectman for 21 years until 2016, when he was unseated by current board member Bill Adams. He said earlier Monday that he decided to run for a seat on the Select Board because he had served the town for so long in the past and wanted to continue to do so.
Vandoloski credited social media with helping to get out the vote.
“I guess social media does a lot. I don’t do it, but it does keep people informed and gets people out to the polls,” she said.
Vandoloski said that she is happy to have the opportunity to continue to serve Cummington.
“I saw Jim today (Monday) and he congratulated me,” she said. “It is a small town and we all have to work together.”
Drawe said that he was surprised by the vote tally.
“I thought I would get more,” he said.
Drawe said he didn’t run on any particular issue, except for wanting to work for the benefit of the town.
He said he would not run again for a seat on the board.
All other contestants in other races ran unopposed.