CHARLEMONT — Residents at Tuesday’s election voted in a new Selectboard member, decided the outcome of a Planning Board race and chose three new Hawlemont Regional School District School Committee members.
Valentine G. Reid unseated incumbent William D. Harker for a three-year term on the Selectboard by a vote of 117 to 64. Lori Ann Shulda Merrigan received 102 votes compared to Andrew Mueller’s 66 votes, earning her a three-year term on the Planning Board.
With all Hawlemont School Committee members having resigned, three candidates ran unopposed for staggered term lengths — so that only one committee member per year will be up for re-election. Former school psychologist Anne J. Kaplan ran for a three-year seat, receiving 159 votes; Cheryl L. Handsaker, who was appointed to the School Committee in April to fill Michael Walsh’s seat in an earlier resignation, got 153 votes for the two-year seat; and Elizabeth Van Iderstine gained the one-year term with 154 votes.
Additionally, a vote on a $231,958 tax levy-limit override for Hawlemont’s operating budget passed by a simple majority with a vote of 102 to 100, with two blank ballots cast. The same question also passed at Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday night.
According to Town Clerk Kathy Reynolds, 204 of the town’s 922 registered voters cast their ballots, making for a 22.1% turnout.
The results of the remaining uncontested races are as follows:
■Planning Board, one seat with a two-year term — Colleen A. Champ, 147 votes.
■Board of Assessors, one seat with a three-year term — candidate Jacqueline Cashin, five write-in votes.
■Mohawk Trail Regional School District School Committee, three-year term — Evelyn F. Locke, 158 votes.
■Mohawk Trail School Committee, two-year term — Thorne Palmer, 160 votes.
■Moderator, one-year term — Bob Handsaker, 10 write-in votes; Charlotte Dewey, 8 write-in votes.
■Tree warden, one-year term — Andrew Mueller, 159 votes.
■Board of Health, one seat with a three-year term — Mae Tanner, 150 votes.
■Tyler Memorial Library trustee, three-year term — Evelyn F. Locke, 167 votes.
■Park and Recreation Commission, one seat with a five-year term — Neil Neuhauser, 151 votes.
■Local Education Council, one seat with a two-year term — Ashley Sparks, 31 write-in votes; John Hoffman, 8 write-in votes.
■Constable, three-year term — Erwin Reynolds Jr., 157 votes.