Updated, May 15
At the annual Tisbury town election Tuesday, voters selected Alicia Lesnikowska in a close race over incumbent Mike Watts for a three-year term on the School Committee.
Lesnikowska secured 120 votes to Watts’ 108.
For the Board of Health, George A. Santos Jr. took the seat decisively with 190 votes over William Henry O’Brien (20 votes) and Israel E.O. Zeigenhorn (25 votes).
Uncontested races saw John Cahill re-elected to the Select Board with 204 votes and Mary Bernadette Budinger-Cormie elected to a one-year planning board term with 125 votes. Elmer H. Silva Jr. was voted in as Water Commissioner with 212 votes, and Anne C. McDonough for a five-year planning board term with 207 votes. Elizabeth Lewis Bates (195 votes), Archibald Alexander Smith (188 votes), and Myra C. Stark (197 votes) were elected to three-year Library Board of Trustees positions and Robert Peyton Gilpin earned a one-year Library Board seat with 198 votes.
For the Finance and Advisory Committee, Rachel F. Orr (202 votes), Louise Clough (198 votes), and Russell Hartenstine (179 votes) were elected. John Schilling secured the town moderator position with 233 votes, and Amelia Tierney won the Board of Assessors with 210 votes.
The election was held at the Emergency Services Facility, with polls open from noon to 8 pm.
