PATCH ELECTION

Official Town Election Results

Incumbents re-elected, questions 2 and 3 fail.

Scroll through the attached PDF to see how precincts voted in this year's election.

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PATCH ELECTION

Voters Reject Town Clerk, Water/Sewer Charter Changes

Incumbents re-elected for Selectmen, School Committee.

With 1,266 voters at the polls Tuesday, Norton residents voted against questions 2 and 3 in the charter changes and voted in incumbents. There were 745 votes to keep the Town Clerk position elected, while 724 voters also wanted to keep the Water and Sewer Commission positions elected. Question 1, which asked voters to approve grammatical errors, prohibit a town officer or official from simultaneously holding the office of Selectmen or Planning Board and a few other items, passed with 780 votes. More information on the charter questions can be found here. Incumbents Bradford Bramwell and Timothy Giblin were voted back to their seats on the Board of Selectmen. Bramwell had 820 votes while Giblin had 776. James Dinsel came short with 472 …

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Revised Charter Changes Almost Complete

Three articles to be placed on the fall Town Meeting warrant.

The eight-member Charter Review Committee is in the home stretch, and the group submitted a list of recommendations to selectmen Thursday night. Selectman Bob Kimball said a few of the suggestions might be controversial enough to draw a significant number of people to the fall Town Meeting. Committee chairman Lee Tarantino said the group has met 26 times over a year and a half, and went through every article in the 25 year old document, picking apart wording and tossing procedures that are no longer appropriate. Tarantino said the three articles that will be placed on the fall warrant are separate so voters can affirm or deny specific parts of the Charter changes, instead of voting the whole thing down for one or two issues. The first …

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AN INSIDE LOOK

Fire Union Wants Selectmen To Follow Charter

Firefighters have valid complaint, but selectmen say they have done nothing wrong.

Selectmen and the town’s firefighters’ union are at odds over negotiations on a new contract. That is nothing new. What is unusual is the reason the union is complaining has nothing to do with salary, benefits or working conditions. Union president Richard Medeiros says selectmen are violating the town charter by refusing to negotiate in person. Selectmen have been sending their attorney and the Town Manager to negotiating sessions, and say they have no intention of changing that. This is a break from past practice, when at least two selectmen sat in on negotiations. And they sat in for good reason. The Town Charter clearly and unambiguously states two selectmen “shall attend and participate with the town manager” in all collective …

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