Nantucket Voters Return Incumbent to Select Board; Approve Several Spending Articles

COURTESY OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

NANTUCKET – Nantucket voters returned incumbent Select Board member Matt Fee to office in Tuesday’s election.

Kristie Ferrantella picked up the second available seat on the board. Tobias Glidden, Fran Karttunen, Jill Vieth and Charity Grace Mofsen finished out of the running.

In the race for Land Bank, incumbent John Stackpole defeated challenger Mark Donato.

Planning Board member Barry Rector lost his seat to David Pumphrey.

Nantucket voters also decided on eight ballot questions that called for $58 million in total spending.

Articles for a town pier project, landfill capping, Orange St. bike path, affordable housing and a few capital projects passed.

Money for street and rotary work on Old South, Fairgrounds and Newtown Roads was rejected.

Voters also defeated spending money for street improvement in Surfside and money for an auxiliary public safety facility.

Click on the link below for complete results:

2019 Annual Town Election Results (4)

Voter turnout on Nantucket was 35.6 percent.

 

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