PERU – Nearly 300 residents turned out Monday to elect two selectmen, two school board members, a road commissioner and a fire chief.
Andre St. Pierre, a MeadWestvaco Corp. employee, won a second, three-year term as selectman, and Kathryn Austin, a University of Maine at Farmington student, won a first term. Austin succeeds Jim Pulsifer, who did not seek another term on the Board of Selectmen.
St. Pierre received 200 votes, while Austin received 147 votes, and former Selectman Rodney Jamison garnered 141.
Incumbent Peru School Committee member Janet Rowley won a three-year term on the SAD 21 board, over Stephanie Prue, by a 182-103 vote. Patricia Hunt, also a Peru School Committee member, ran unopposed for the two years remaining on Tammy Lyons’ term. Hunt received 278 votes.
The Peru School Committee will be phased out in June now that Peru has merged with SAD 21. Peru will have four representatives on the board.
Incumbent Road Commissioner David Gammon easily won another three-year term over former Selectman Richard Vaughn and Peru Fire Department member Daniel Carrier Jr.
Gammon got 208 votes, while Vaughn got 52 and Carrier received 33.
Longtime Fire Chief Bill Hussey ran unopposed for another three-year term. He received 284 votes.
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