BUXTON — A recount in Buxton today reconfirmed that local voters turned down a plan that would have allowed the town to use a vacant school building as a community center.

The ballot asked voters whether the town should enter into a one-year lease agreement with SAD 6. If it had been approved, Buxton would have been allowed, for $1 a year, to use the vacant Hanson School as a community center.

The original vote failed by 10 votes – 546 to 536. In today’s recount, it narrowed to a 9-vote gap – 549 to 540.

The proposal was viewed as an effort by the Buxton-Hollis Historical Society to prevent the 81-year-old former elementary school from being torn down.