by Joseph Gresser
Around 100 Barton residents showed up at Lake Region Union High School Town Meeting Day night to decide their town’s course for the next year. With level-funded town and road budgets, there was little to rile up voters, so the meeting was, in general, a good-humored affair.
There were only two contested votes, the first a race for a three-year select board seat between Dee McDowell, the incumbent, and Ben Morley. State law calls for a paper ballot for all contested races for town office, so Barton residents had a chance to mingle and chat while waiting to vote, and then waiting for their ballots to be counted.
At the end of the process Town Clerk Kristin Atwood announced that ….
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