Voters give deputy Town Clerk Jane Giasson a promotion.

RUMFORD – Incumbent Selectman James Thibodeau defeated challengers Albert Cyr and James Adley during Tuesday’s local elections, while deputy Town Clerk Jane Giasson won the position of town clerk over first-time office seeker Cynthia Kelley.

Thibodeau received 611 votes to Cyr’s 492 and Adley’s 267.

Giasson took 843 votes to Kelley’s 555.

Thibodeau begins his fifth, three-year term on the board. Giasson has served as deputy town clerk for 16 years. She will serve the remaining one year of a three-year term started by longtime Town Clerk Mary Ann Prue, who retired this week.

Cyr, a retired, self-employed carpenter, was making a first-time bid for elective seat. He ran a campaign focusing on regionalism. Adley, an active volunteer in the community, made a third unsuccessful try for a seat on the Rumford board.

Thibodeau, a self-employed telecommunications consultant, won a fifth three-year term. Although he said he is willing to look at more regional matters, he has opposed many and believes the town could do better by itself rather than combining resources with neighboring towns in many cases.

He and the current board have initiated a search by a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to look for federal money that could benefit the town.

Craig Chamberlain and Louise Horne ran unopposed for seats on the Board of Assessors.

Chamberlain won his first three-year term on the board. The South Rumford Road resident has just completed one year in the position where he filled out the term of former assessor Peter Perry. He received 1,285 votes.

Horne, a resident of Hall Hill Road, was elected to finish out the remaining one year in former assessor Rick Rinaldo’s term. She received 1,301 votes.


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