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Voters will choose two new members for both the select board and the school committee in Tuesdays town election.

Contests for seats on the select board, school committee and planning board highlight the April 26 Milton town election.

MILTON — Michael Zullas overwhelmingly won a second term on the select board, two newcomers won seats on the school committee and voters approved a debt exclusion to update the towns fire stations in Tuesdays town election. Zullas defeated Philip Johenning by a margin of 3,481 votes to 691 in the select board race. Elizabeth "Lizzy" Carroll and Beverly Ross Denny, who ran a joint campaign, swept to victory in the contest for two vacant school committee seats. Carroll, a program director for...

She just doesnt know what impact the continuing coronavirus pandemic will have on turnout. "All the evidence is there that we should have a good turnout, but throw COVID into the mix and I just dont know," Galvin said. "The candidates are pretty active in their campaigning." Last year, with the election moved to June due to the pandemic, only 15.8 percent of the towns voters cast ballots, nearly half of them by absentee or mail-in ballots.  Galvin said she had received just over 600 requests f...

MILTON — Contests for select board and school committee top the five races on the ballot for the April 27 town election. Tuesday was the deadline for submitting nomination papers for the election to the office of Town Clerk Susan Galvin.  "It should be interesting," Galvin said of this years election races. She said vacancies on some high-profile town boards is part of the reason for the number of races as well as the attention issues surrounding the reopening of the schools are getting.. ...