OXFORD — Residents elected Roger Jackson to a third term on the Board of Selectmen Tuesday with 133 votes.

Challenger Richard Varney received 80 votes.

Jackson said his re-election would let him “help the rest of the board see our agenda through.”

A strong supporter of the casino, Jackson has said he approved of the direction the town is taking. He said residents “saw the handwriting on the wall.”

Varney, who spent several winters in South Carolina where a casino collapsed, said he was afraid the casino would leave Oxford worse off.

Jackson is a Vietnam veteran who served 22 active years in the U.S. Army. He earned degrees from the University of Maryland and from Columbus College in Ohio. After the Army, Jackson was a mail carrier in Buckfield, where he was elected to the board of the Rural Letter Carriers’ union and served five consecutive terms as president.

In 2000, around the time he retired from the Postal Service, he began making maple syrup and growing vegetables on his farm. In 2007, he finished the last year of his brother Caldwell Jackson’s term as selectman, and was re-elected the following year.

William Frye, who was uncontested, won his seat on the Oxford Water District Board of Trustees with only one write-in vote against him. Henry Jackson, also uncontested, won another term on the SAD 17 board.

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Board of Selectmen

: 133

Richard Varney: 80

Louise Grant: 1 *

Oxford Water District trustees

William Frye Jr.: 192

Gary Smith: 1 *

SAD 17 directors

Henry Jackson: 188

* write-in candidate

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