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Casco residents prefer repairing the community center or moving town offices into the Casco Memorial School, while Naples residents would ride a bus to Portland.

Those are some of the outcomes of Tuesday’s non-binding referendums in School Administrative District 61 towns, whose residents voted not only on the school budget, but also for town officials and several referendums and ordinances. The turnout was highest in Naples, where residents also voted in a referendum on the Causeway bridge.

In Casco, the vote was another step in a process toward moving town offices from their current location behind the fire station. Selectmen hoped to gauge residents’ interest in several options ranging from building a new town office to renovating the community center building to moving into the Casco Memorial School.

In a choice between four options for new town offices, not including the school option, 171 out of 297 voters showed a preference to repair the existing community center building. In a second article focused specifically on whether or not to move town offices into the school, the yes votes won 191-128.

Naples residents enacted a floodplan management ordinance 471-282 and a zoning ordinance by 460-291. In a non-binding referendum, 370 voters said that they would use a proposed bus service between Naples and Portland while 313 said they wouldn’t.

Christine Powers and Dana Watson were re-elected to the Naples of Selectboard, Ephrem Paraschak was elected to the Casco Naples Transfer Station Council, and Michael Skarbinski was elected a SAD 61 school director. Though there were only two candidates for four positions on the Naples Budget Committee, two write-in candidates also received a handful of votes. The four new members of the budget committee will be Marie Caron, Timothy Vogen, Theodore Shane, and William Weese Jr. John Thompson was elected to serve on the Naples Planning Board.

In Sebago, Ann Farley and Jeffrey Harriman were elected to the Board of Selectmen, Joseph McMahon to the Budget Committee and as a cemetery trustee, Jean Clancy to the School Board and Paul Fahey as a trustee to the town-owned Potter School building.

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