Chester Rice won his fifth consecutive term on the South Bristol Board of Selectmen tonight, defeating challenger and former long-time Selectman Don Stanley, a write-in candidate, 108-66.
In a two-way race for a South Bristol School Committee seat, Clay Gilbert, a commercial fishermen and father of two SBS students, handily won election over author and retired professor Michael Uhl. Gilbert received 98 votes to Uhl’s 26.
South Bristol residents cast a total of 179 ballots in the election, far surpassing the 100 ballots town staff brought to the school and forcing municipal official and town meeting moderator Ken Maguire to rush an emergency print run to the school.
A full report on the election, as well as coverage of South Bristol’s annual town meeting, will follow in the March 10 edition of The Lincoln County News.
The annual town meeting will begin at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, at the South Bristol School.
