58 people voted in today's town election. That's 10.8 % of the town's
536 registered voters.  Granted, there were no contested elections.
Still, the town had to spend $480 to have six people work at the polls
for 8 hours at $10/hour each. 

The vote totals are

Moderator, Allen Mexcur, 57 votes

Selectwoman, Patricia Lemon, 46

Assessor, Keith Ross, 56

Board of Health, Liz Whipple, 55

Constable (3 years), Bruce Kilhart, 53

Constable (1 year, to fill a vacancy), George Day, 57

Tree Warden, Dana Songer, 56

Library Trustees, Ann Miner, 58, Lisa Vanderstelt, 45

Ed Hawes got 23 votes as a write-in candidate for Cemetery Commissioner.

Notes from the selectboard meeting:

The board approved job descriptions for two employees the cemetery
commissioner will be hiring.  The jobs of grounds mower and grounds
trimmer have long been performed by members of the MacQuarrie family,
but resignations seem to be in the offing.  The Cemetery Commission will
post the job openings and do the hiring, with confirmation by the
selectboard.  Contact for more information about the jobs is Jim Toth,
Northfield Road.

The annual Memorial Day ceremony will be held at the Unitarian Church
Saturday, May 23, at 1 p.m.  Nick Arguimbau will represent the
selectboard.  Calvin Fellows will be the speaker.

In one of those surreal moments that make dealing with state government
such a treat, town coordinator David Young informed the board that the
state ethics commission says that any person eligible to vote at a
Warwick town meeting must be designated a special town employee to be
able to work as a broadband internet installer.  The reason: the
broadband system is funded by an enterprise fund and all voters are
stakeholders in that fund.  Therefore, the selectboard voted to
designate all town meeting members and broadband committee members as
special town employees. The library trustees also got the same
designation.  Named specifically on separate certificates were Terry
Kemerer and Les Goodman, broadband installers, and Lisa Vanderstelt,
newly elected library trustee who fills in as substitute librarian on
occasion.

The selectboard voted to authorize a nuisance dog hearing relating to a
pit bull on Shepardson Road who terrorized a neighbor on Sunday, if the
dog has not been removed from town by Tuesday (May 19) as the owner's
landlord has ordered.  The owner will be sent a notice by registered
mail and a legal notice will be published, if necessary. Dog officer
Rosa Calcari said she would check after the board adjourned; if the dog
has left town, no hearing will be necessary.

Miryam Williamson, reporting

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