FARMINGTON – Farmington voters chose John Frary with 114 votes Monday to complete the two-year term left open on the Board of Selectmen following the death of Selectman Mary Wright earlier this year.

The other four candidates were Robert Vallette with 78 votes, Stanley Kuklinski with 71 votes, Andrew Hufnagel with 54 votes and Ryan Moore with 27 votes.

Longtime Selectmen Dennis Pike and Stephan Bunker ran unopposed for the two three-year terms on that board.

A one-year term on the board, formerly held by Selectman Mark Cayer, will be filled by Jon Bubier with a total of 205 votes over Kyle Warren with 132 votes.

Elected to the two, three-year terms, on the SAD 9 Board of Directors are incumbents Raymond Glass with 257 votes, and Yvette Robinson with 240 votes. Fred O. Smith received 117 votes.

Most articles on the Farmington town meeting warrant passed quickly.

The police and fire department articles were questioned but approved. An $18,000 increase in overtime pay included as part of the $959,070 requested amount for the Farmington Police Department was questioned by Bill Crandall, who motioned for an amount of $929,000. The increase, he said, brings the overtime budget up to $70,000. Residents voted not to amend the $959,070 figure.

An article to appropriate $22,000 for repairs to Walton’s Mill Pond Dam was approved. Thomas Eastler, speaking on behalf of repairing the dam, suggested that someday when a low head hydro plant is built when oil is $200 a barrel and electricity is not available, although it won’t make money, townspeople will glad to have the dam.

Questions arose regarding the Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission’s need to ensure that there is a fish passage there. The removal of a dam in the Kennebec River is now creating a salmon/trout passage up to the lower Sandy River from the ocean. It is feasible that fish could reach up to Temple Stream.

“There is serious deterioration on the Morrison Hill side of the dam that could result in losing the whole dam,” Richard Davis, town manager said. We can solve the fish problem but the dam is worth preserving, he said.

A request for $1,000 for Work First Inc. was voted down. Selectmen and the Budget Committee had recommended no donation, not because they didn’t support the work done by this organization, but because of the feeling that the tax-exempt status on their older building and a possible tax-exempt status on the new thrift store, plus the lands surrounding the buildings, amounted to a donation. Residents agreed after several spoke in favor of all that Work First does not only for their clients, but how it provides local employment.