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Sidney voters on Friday elected a seasoned incumbent and a newcomer to the Select Board, and an incumbent for another three-year term on the Regional School Unit 18 board.

Select Board chair John Whitcomb was elected to a three-year term over his opponent, Robert Rousseau, 123-98. Whitcomb, 52, has served on the board almost consecutively since 2002, and said he hopes to keep property taxes among the lowest in the state.

Daniel Morrissette won a two-year term on the Select Board as a write-in candidate with 68 votes. The 66-year-old semiretired school bus driver has never held elected office but said he hopes to learn on the job.

Whitcomb, the chair, collected 35 write-in votes for the two-year term, putting him in second place, ahead of declared write-in candidate James Pinkham Jr., who received 15 votes.

Matthew Sadler was reelected to the RSU 18 school board with 188 votes. He ran unopposed.

He’ll serve a full three-year term after being appointed to the position in December.

Turnout was up this year from last year’s spring Select Board election — about 235 voters compared to last year’s 55 — but still low, at around 6% of the town’s 3,700 registered voters.

Ethan covers local politics and the environment for the Kennebec Journal, and he runs the weekly Kennebec Beat newsletter. He joined the KJ in 2024 shortly after graduating from the University of North...

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