Layne Curtis, a loser by one vote in the selectmen’s race, wins a School Committee seat.
By Connie Footman
Special to the Sun Journal

LISBON – Incumbent chairman of the Board of Selectmen E. Charles Smith was re-elected to a second three-year term Saturday, while incumbent School Committee Chairman Harold N. Moran lost his bid for re-election.

In the six-way race for two openings on the Board of Selectmen, Smith garnered the high vote total, 229. Paul P. Chizmar won the second opening on the board with 192 votes, defeating former Selectman Layne Curtis, with 191, by one vote. Herbert L. Reed had 143, Richard A. Gamache 65 and Ralph G. Day 41.

In the four-way race for two seats on the School Committee, former Chairwoman Martha M.S. Poliquin received the most votes, 236, while Curtis – also a candidate for selectman – won the second seat with 226 votes. Deborah L. Danuski received 185 votes and Moran 178.

Winning the single seat in a two-way race for Water Commission vacated by David Hale was Stanley A. Doughty Jr., who received 323 votes in his first try for elective office. Janey L. Rivard, another newcomer to local politics, received 114.

Elected unopposed to seats on the Library Governing Board were Sally A. Lunt, 376, and Ralph G. Day, 331.

Only 465 out of 5,887 eligible voters turned out for the election, according to a spokesman at the Town Clerk’s Office.

Moderator J. Michael Huston will open town meeting on the 93-article warrant at 7 p.m. Monday at the high school gymnasium.