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LYNNFIELD
WEEKLY NEWS
MAY 7, 2015 • VOLUME 59 • NO. 18
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Barrett win upheld in selectman race vote recount By Bill Laforme wlaforme@weeklynews.net LYNNFIELD – A hand recount last Saturday upheld the results of last month’s selectman’s race in favor of Chris Barrett, who received 1,354 votes to 1,318 for Katy Shea. Shea apparently picked up three additional votes in the recount, with the election night count having shown a 1,354-1,315 vote win for Barrett. The town’s Board of Registrars, consisting of Town Clerk Trudy Reid, Bob Casoli, and Kendall Inglese, conducted the recount. Observers from both campaigns, as well as the two candidates, spent the morning at the Al Merritt Community Center at MarketStreet Lynnfield with election workers who counted through ballots, with the occasional challenge, in stacks of 50 at a time.
Earlier that morning, the ballots were taken from storage in a vault at Town Hall and transported to the recount site with a Lynnfield police escort, and the ballots later returned to their spot via the same method. An officer was also on hand to keep order throughout the recount process. “We are all here as a community. We are here to get this process done, and move on,” said Inglese, the registrar board chair, before the counting began. Representing the Katy Shea campaign, attorney Bradford Keene made a motion at the outset of the recount to disqualify Reid from participating. Keene said that Reid has “an inherent conflict of interest in overseeing or participating in the recount” and that “she is reviewing her own work” ■ RECOUNT continued on page 8
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Observers from the Shea and Barrett campaigns looked on as election workers re-counted ballots from last month’s selectman’s race Saturday at the Al Merritt Center.
No quorum for night two of Town Meeting
Fundraising for town’s playgrounds
LYNNFIELD – The four remaining warrant articles from the spring Town Meeting will have to wait until October after a second attempt at a quorum last Thursday evening fell short by about 45 voters. For a Lynnfield Town Meeting to have a quorum, 175 voters must be in attendance. ■ QUORUM continued on page 8
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Members of the Lynnfield Moms Group have begun holding bake sales on Sundays at Lynnfield Youth Soccer games to raise money for planned playground improvements in town, with an eye on Glen Meadow and Jordan Park to begin with. (From Left to Right- Erika Wilson, Sonia Brady, Erica Kelly, and Melissa Adams.)
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