EXETER – Two new selectmen were elected during the annual town meeting Monday.

Marcella Eldridge and Barry Brown will serve a two-year term and a one-year term, respectively. They will fill the new seats approved at last year’s town meeting when voters moved to increase the board from three to five selectmen.

James Crane, whose term as selectman expired this year, was re-elected to another three-year term.

Also re-elected was Gary Perkins to the SAD 46 board of directors.

About 55 people attended the meeting during which authorization was given to town officials to join a regional effort to get a housing assistance grant, an energy conservation grant and a planning grant to study the reuse of local elementary schools that will be closed when the new SAD 46 pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade school is opened, according to Town Manager Peter Wintle.

Residents gave their OK to purchase the Exeter Elementary School building for $1, if the building is offered to the town when SAD 46 closes it.

Two amendments were approved. Residents voted to reduce the amount to finish Eaton Road paving from $120,000 to $90,000 and they voted to increase the amount for winter plowing and sand from $185,000 to $207,082, according to Wintle.

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