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Early voting has begun for Buxton residents. Voting on Election Day, June 9, is from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Buxton Town Hall. A sample ballot is available on the town’s webpage.

BOARD OF SELECTMEN

Voters will choose from five candidates to fill two open seats on Buxton’s board of selectmen. Incumbents Chair David Field and Vice Chair Francis Pulsoni are running for second terms. Salvatore Demasi, Stephen Plympton and Beverly Young are also running. All selectmen seats are for three-year terms.

Town Clerk John Myers is the sole candidate for another three-year term in his role. Roger Tracy is running uncontested to continue in his role on the planning board for another three years. Voters will write in their candidate of choice for an open one-year term on the board. Richard Fitzgerald is running for another three-year term on the budget committee, and one additional budget committee slot has no candidates on the ballot and is open for write-ins. Budget committee member Richard Emery is not running for another term.

CHARTER COMMISSION

Voters will decide on an article to establish a charter commission. If passed, a charter commission committee will be voted into office in November to revise the municipal charter outlining the town government’s structure.

SCHOOL BOARD

Buxton voters will vote for four open seats on the Maine School Administrative District 6 School Board. The race for the Buxton resident seat is between Cynthia Meserve, who is vying for a second term, and William Hall. The Limington resident race is between Howard Allen and Dara Crawford.

Current board member John Sargent is the only candidate for the Standish resident seat and voters will have the option to write in a name for the Frye Island resident seat.

All MSAD 6 school board seats have three-year terms.

SCHOOL BUDGET

Voters will decide whether to approve the $73 million budget for MSAD 6 that passed at the school board meeting on April 6, a 6% increase from this fiscal year’s $68.9 million budget. The change would result in a 2.42% tax increase.

The ballot also asks if voters approve MSAD 6 to borrow $554,575 through Maine’s zero interest rate School Revolving Renovation Fund Program to fund indoor air quality renovations and George E. Jack School, and if the district may borrow up to $8.2 million for district-wide repairs and renovations.

STATE PRIMARIES

Registered Democrats will vote in the U.S. Senate primary, where Graham Platner is highly likely to be named the nominee to oppose Sen. Susan Collins in November. Both parties will rank their choices for governor. 

Republicans Joshua Pietrowicz, of New Gloucester, and Ron Russell, of Kennebunkport, will face off in the primary to take on incumbent Chellie Pingree for the District 1 U.S. Representative seat. Pingree, of North Haven, is not facing a Democratic primary challenger. 

Republican Harry White of Scarborough is running unopposed for the Maine Senate District 30 seat, and Eleanor Sato, of Gorham, and Sophia Warren, of Scarborough, are facing off to be the Democratic nominee. In District 31, incumbent Donna Bailey, of Saco, is running uncontested as a Democrat and Garrett Plummer, of Buxton, is running unopposed as a Republican.

The Maine District 137 and 138 primaries are uncontested. In Maine District 137, incumbent Nathan Carlow, of Buxton, is running as a Republican and Charles Tillburg, also of Buxton, is running as a Democrat. In Maine District 138, Jonathon Lee Kinney, of Limington, is running as a Republican and Oliver McAvoy, of Limington, is running as the sole Democrat.