Janet Curran, Michael Sussman win Williamstown library trustee posts in election's only contested race

Williamstown residents took to the polls Tuesday for the annual town election. There was one contested race, the board of library trustees.
WILLIAMSTOWN — Janet Curran and Michael Sussman won two seats on the town’s library board of trustees, the only contested race in Tuesday’s town election.
At the polls inside Williamstown Elementary School, voters choose candidates for Select Board, library trustee, Housing Authority and Planning Board. Of the 4,644 registered voters across three precincts, 411 voted, or almost 9 percent, according to official results from Town Clerk Nicole Beverly.
Four newcomers ran for two open three-year terms on the David and Joyce Milne Public Library board of trustees: Curran and Sussman were the top vote-getters with 219 and 216 votes, respectively, defeating Martin Mitsoff and Kathleen Schultze.
Two incumbent Select Board candidates, Shana Dixon and Stephanie Boyd, and Nathaniel Budington, a newcomer, won the three open seats; Dixon and Boyd won fresh three-year terms while Budington will fill the remaining year of the seat vacated by Jeffrey Johnson.
Budington currently serves on the Historical Commission and his term ended this year.
Some 239 voters either left the three Select Board options blank or wrote-in.
Unopposed incumbent Charles Stephen Dew Roger Lawrence earned five-year posts on the Housing Authority and Planning Board, respectively.
Annual town meeting is scheduled 7 p.m. May 19 at Williamstown Elementary School. Registered voters will decide on the town spending budget for fiscal 2027, which will raise the tax rate of a single-family home by an average of over 8 percent, or roughly $600.
Voters also will weigh in on Community Preservation Act spending, a citizens petition seeking to ban future land application of wastewater sludge, and other proposals like one that seeks to adopt the state’s Seasonal Communities law.
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