Incumbent Selectwoman Dolores Pinette held onto her seat by a narrow margin in a race Tuesday against challenger Charlie Collins.
Pinette took 226 votes to Collins’ 204.
Incumbent Town Clerk and Tax Collector Kristen Coombs saw lighter competition in voting Tuesday.
In the race for town clerk, Coombs took 191 votes to challengers Diane Longstreet’s 71 votes and Judith Duke’s 16 votes. In the race for tax collector, Coombs cruised similarly to a win with 183 votes over Longstreet’s 81 votes and Duke’s 21 votes.
Uncontested elections confirmed Mary McDonald as town treasurer, Dale Savoie as road commissioner, and Nina Roth-Wells as school committee member.
The only incumbent unseated in Tuesday’s elections was Bronwen Tudor, who held a seat on the Townowned Property Management Board. Challenger Mark Donovan beat Tudor with 221 votes to Tudor’s 180.
Georgetown voters will assemble for the annual town meeting Saturday to cast votes on 55 articles that make up a $4,265,679 budget that comes in 0.8 percent above last year’s figure of $4,230,467.
dfishell@timesrecord.com
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