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Eddington voters to elect 7 town officials

EDDINGTON – Residents will fill local elective positions and adopt a municipal operating budget during their annual elections and town meeting next week.

Town elections will take place from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday at the municipal building. The annual town meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Eddington School gymnasium.

In this year’s elections, voters will fill seven local offices, four of them on the town’s five-member Board of Selectmen.

Selectmen seats to be filled are the expiring three-year posts now held by Joan Brooks and Donn C. Goodwin, both of whom are unopposed for re-election, the remaining two years of Lawrence J. Kirouac’s unexpired term and the remaining year of Timothy Campbell’s term.

Candidates for Kirouac’s seat are James Hancock, Diane Rimm and James White. Marie M. Baillargeon and Charles C. Grover Jr. are seeking Campbell’s spot.

Claude Berthiaume is unchallenged for re-election to the SAD 63 board. Kathy Fox, whose term also expires this year, has opted not to run and no one has stepped forward as a candidate. Local officials hope to fill that post through a write-in election next month. Doug Castiglia is running for the remaining two years of the SAD 63 board seat to which selectmen appointed him last year, after a write-in election failed to fill it.

During the town meeting, voters will consider a proposed municipal budget of $763,818, up about $50,000 from the total residents approved last year, according to Treasurer Denise Knowles. Town officials propose using $375,000 from the undesignated fund balance to offset operating costs.

In addition to the usual yearly housekeeping items, residents will consider an ordinance for wireless telecommunication facilities, such as cellular telephone towers.

The towers first became an issue here last summer, when the town received inquiries from almost half a dozen individuals and companies interested in erecting communications towers in the community. But the town lacked an ordinance governing them.

During a special town meeting in August, residents approved a moratorium on the towers to give the local planning board time to review the town’s needs and to implement regulatory language in the town’s zoning ordinance.

Residents also will consider a road design ordinance and an amendment to the subdivision ordinance and to zoning rules governing automobile graveyards and junkyards.


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