CHESTERFIELD — All incumbents were reelected during Monday’s town election, which featured no races, and two empty spots remain open on the Planning Board.
Trish Colson-Montgomery easily regained her Select Board seat, garnering 97 votes. A handful of write-in candidates were also voted for, including two votes for Peter Bolbey, and 47 voters abstained from voting.
After receiving 17 votes, write-in candidate Mary Anne Severence will serve a three-year term as town assessor. A few other citizens received a vote or two, and 127 voters did not place a vote for assessor.
Those who ran uncontested and will be back for three-year terms include Margaret “Peg” Whalen on the Board of Health, Library Trustee Jennifer Peotter, Donald Willard III of the Chesterfield-Goshen School Committee, Constable Daniel Blair, Tree Warden Christopher Ryan, Treasurer Margaret “Meg” McWherter, Tax Collector Lenore Pittsinger and Town Clerk Sandra Wickland.
Daniel Henshaw returns for a three-year Planning Board term, write-in candidate George Sturtevant accepted a term, and Sarah Hamilton will be back on the board for a two-year term. Both two- and three-year seats on the board remain open.
In total 151 ballots were cast, or 15% of the town’s 1,008 voters. Chesterfield continues to use its 1932 ballot box, which rings like an old-fashioned cash register after a ballot is cast.
