Marlborough elects mayor, city councilors

Marlborough - City residents who turned out to vote Nov. 3 voiced their opinion in favor of how the city is currently doing business, re-electing all incumbents running for office. According to the unofficial results, this year’s election drew about 30 percent of the registered voters - 6,123 out of a total of 20,239.

    Mayor Nancy Stevens, who was challenged by Joseph Collins, received 3,540 votes, which won her a third term as mayor. Collins, who got 2,448 votes, said he made a good effort and was proud to receive nearly 41 percent of the votes. 

    “I will be coming back for another race for mayor,” Collins said. “For now, I am going to rest up, continue to attend City Council meetings and get my name recognized.”      

    With eight candidates running for four at-large councilor seats, the team approach that the incumbents took during the debate worked in their favor with re-election of Councilors at-Large Michael Ossing, Steven Levy, Arthur Vigeant and Patricia Pope. Council President Vigeant received 3,349 votes; followed by Levy with 3,144 votes; Ossing with 3,091; and Pope with 2,692. Despite their best efforts to challenge the incumbents, these candidates came up short: Mark Oram receiving 2,404 votes; Michael McGorty with 2,361 votes; Paul Polewacyk with 1,723; and John McEnaney with 944.

    Despite the contested seats in Ward 2, 4 and 7, all the incumbent councilors were voted in for another term. Ward 2 Councilor Paul Ferro, who got 535 votes, won his seat back against John Chagnon, who received 316 votes. Ward 4 Councilor Peter Juaire, 468 votes, beat Steven Kerrigan, 330, and said he was very happy to be re-elected.

    “I think the voters sent the message that they are happy with the direction the city is going,” Juaire said.

    Echoing Juaire’s sentiments, Ward 7 City Councilor Donald Landers, who received 520 votes against Jennifer Boudrie, 290, said he was looking forward to getting back to work with his colleagues. During his campaign, Landers said, his constituents raised several concerns that would need to be addressed, including the state of the city schools and roads.

    The Ward 3 seat was up for grabs after City Councilor Scott Schafer announced that he would not seek re-election. George Stein received 460 votes, allowing Matt Elder, 553, to secure the seat.

    With no challengers, the three existing School Committee members running for three seats, Jennifer Hardy, Mark E. Hediger and Michelle Bodin-Hettinger, were re-elected.