Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, May 23
- Council on Aging, 9 a.m.
- Conservation Commission executive session, noon
- Nauset Regional School Committee, Nauset Middle School, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, May 28
- Conservation Commission on-site meeting, 8:15 a.m., meet at town hall
- Conservation Commission, 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 30
- Board of Health, 3 p.m.
Conversation Starter
Election Results
Just under a quarter of Eastham’s voters turned out for the town’s annual election on May 21 and endorsed the town’s two budget overrides approved at the May 4 town meeting.
Incumbent select board member Jamie Demetri was reelected to a three-year term with 932 votes; there were 17 write-ins and 175 blanks.
Robert Bruns, chair of the zoning board of appeals, was elected to a two-year term on the select board with 901 votes; he will take the seat of Art Autorino, who died in February. Eight people wrote in another candidate; there were 215 blanks.
Four more races had only one candidate. Heather Ann Michaud was elected to the Nauset Regional School Committee, Tracie Griffith Vincent to the Eastham Housing Authority, and Sara Rebecca Higgins and Willow Shire to the library trustees.
There were two elections for school committee: one was won by Devon Robert O’Rourke against no opposition, while the other was a tight race between Elaine Lipton, who won with 481 votes, and Sara Rebecca Higgins, who got 441.
The first budget override, to authorize $1,020,000 to pay for increased school system costs, passed with 731 votes in favor and 388 opposed.
The second override, to authorize $300,000 to fund two additional police offcers, passed with 830 votes in favor and 288 opposed.
Both measures needed only a simple majority at the ballot box to go into effect.
A charter amendment to allow the historical commission to also act as the board of cemetery commissioners passed with 990 votes in favor and 111 against. —Paul Benson
