Robert Butler and Sandra O’Farrell participate in a candidates forum at the Waldoboro municipal building Thursday, May 30. Butler and O’Farrell are running for a three-year term on the board of selectmen. (Alexander Violo photos)
Robert Butler, chair of the Waldoboro Board of Selectmen, fended off a challenge from Sandra O’Farrell, a member of the RSU 40 Board of Directors, to win reelection Tuesday, June 11.
The vote was 323-210. Butler returns for a second straight three-year term, his third term overall.
The contest for selectman was the only one in Waldoboro with more than one candidate.
In unopposed races, Danny Jackson, chair of the RSU 40 Board of Directors, was reelected with 465 votes; Michael Thayer was reelected to the Waldoboro Utility District Board of Trustees with 419 votes; and Seth Blodgett and Chair Val Skov were reelected to the Waldoboro Budget Committee with 418 and 371 votes, respectively. All will serve three-year terms.
William Pratt received 427 votes to earn a two-year term on the budget committee and Gordon Webster received 459 votes for a one-year term.
