Great Barrington — The following unofficial results were provided by Town Clerk Jennifer Messina:
Moderator
Michael Owen Wise: 795 votes
Blank ballots: 150
Write-ins: five
Selectboard
Benjamin Peter Elliot: 578 votes
Sharon Gregory: 364 votes
Write-ins: none
Blank ballots: eight
Board of Health
Ruby Chang: 750 votes
Write-ins: six
Blank ballots: 194
Finance Committee (three-year term)
Anne I. O’Dwyer: 744 votes
Write-ins: none
Blank ballots: 206
Finance Committee (one-year term)
Richard Peter Geiler: 689 votes
Blank ballots: 260
Write-ins: one
Housing Authority
Philip N. Orenstein: 697 votes
Blank ballots: 252
Write-ins: One
Library Trustees (two seats for three-year terms)
Sandra Pantorno: 583 votes
Robert M. Shaeffer: 554 votes
John Breasted: 266 votes
Blank ballots: 493
Write-ins: four
Planning Board (two seats for three-year terms)
Malcolm R. Fick: 682 votes
Jonathan Bridgeman Hankin: 619
Write-in candidate Thomas Ferris: 27 votes
Write-in candidate Leigh Davis: 11 votes
Blank ballots: 561
Zoning Board of Appeals (two seats for a five-year term)
Michael Owen Wise: 726 votes
Peter J. Most: 638 votes
Blank ballots: 535 votes
Write-ins: one
Ballot question:
“Shall the Town of Great Barrington be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition Two & One-half, so called, the amounts required to pay for the bond issued in order to pay for the cost of Town buildings and grounds improvements capital projects including but not limited to projects for the Courthouse, Cemetery building and mausoleum, Highway building, Transfer station, Great
Barrington and Housatonic Fire Stations, Mason and Ramsdell Libraries, and Police Station, and related architectural, engineering and planning services; and for the payment of all other costs incidental and related thereto?”
Yes: 573
No: 228
Blanks: 149
Total registered voters: 4,960
Total number who voted 950 or 19.1 percent of eligible voters.
