Town Clerk Catherine Hueberger reads the results
MATTAPOISETT The town has chosen Tyler Macallister as its next Select Board member.
In an election that saw 700 votes cast, Macallister won the race to fill an open position left by the death of John DeCosta in April.
Macallister defeated Kenneth Wilbur for the position with 471 votes. Wilbur received 224 votes. There were four write-ins, and one voter left the single-contest ballot blank.
After the election, Macallister said he was “very relieved.”
“It’s awful hard to run a very abbreviated campaign in June and July,” he said.
Macallister said he’s looking forward to rejoining the board. He resigned from his position on the board in 2019 to pursue the then-open Town Administrator role.
Morgan Beard Jul 27, 2021
Kenneth Wilbur (left) and Tyler Macallister (right) are competing for an open seat on the Mattapoisett Select Board in the July 27 special election
MATTAPOISETT Mattapoisett residents can vote today, Tuesday, July 27 in a Special Town Election to fill the Select Board seat left open by the death of John DeCosta in April. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m at Old Hammondtown School.
Two candidates, Kenneth Wilbur and Tyler Macallister are in the running for the Select Board position. The winner of the election will serve the remainder of DeCosta’s term, through the 2023 Town Election.
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Mattapoisett Club Digging Up 50-Year-Old Time Capsule This Month
What was Mattapoisett like in 1971?
That year in America, the Baltimore Colts won Super Bowl V, All in the Family was television s top show, and Time Magazine named Richard Nixon its Man of the Year. Many folks that now have roots in Mattapoisett, or other parts of the SouthCoast, for that matter, didn t necessarily get to experience the early 70s in the area, either because they lived in a different part of the world at that time or because they simply weren t alive yet.
A lot can happen in 50 years, and thanks to a decades-old project, modern-day SouthCoast residents will soon have the opportunity to take a look at 1971-era Mattapoisett from a cool new view.
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