Falmouth Elections 2025: Unofficial Results Show Tight School Committee Race

FALMOUTH, MA — Unofficial results are in for Falmouth's 2025 local elections, showing a close race in the fight for three School Committee seats.

This year, seats were open on the Select Board, Planning Board and School Committee, and the Town Clerk position was also on the ballot.

The highlight contested races included the Select Board, which had two seats available for four candidates, including Colin Reed, James Morse, incumbent Douglas Brown and Richard McEvoy.

Reed and Brown won in resounding fashion, while Jack Peter Richardson will also join the board after running uncontested for a one-year position.

Three School Committee seats were also available with six candidates running, including incumbent Melissa Keefe, Margaret Souza and Michael Heylin. Jane Scarborough, Sarah Bogdan and Amanda McGonigle will challenge for a seat.

Keefe, Souza and Heylin won the seats, according to the unofficial totals, however, Heylin and McGonigle were only separated by 53 votes.

Two ballot questions were also up for a vote. They included:

Question 1

"Shall the Town of Falmouth be allowed to exempt from the provisions of proposition two and one half, so-called, the amounts to pay for the bonds issued in order to pay the engineering, design and construction of the Great Pond Phase 1 Sewer Project and to include the sewer lines, the pump stations, the force main to convey the wastewater to the Town’s main wastewater treatment facility, and the rehabilitation of the Town’s existing northernmost open sand beds for discharge of treated wastewater, including, without limitation, all costs incidental and related thereto?"

Question 2

WHEREAS, Holtec, owner of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, is discharging untreated radioactively and chemically contaminated industrial wastewater into the atmosphere; and.

WHEREAS, these airborne pollutants are being carried by prevailing winds over and into Cape Cod Bay and our communities; and,

WHEREAS, just as liquid discharge into Cape Cod Bay is in violation the Massachusetts Ocean Sanctuaries Act and other State Laws, this gaseous discharge also violates the Ocean Sanctuaries Act and other state laws Holtec agreed to follow; and,

WHEREAS, these airborne pollutants threaten public and environmental health and safety including the safety of Holtec's own workers-and our marine-based economy;

Therefore, shall the people of the Town of Falmouth direct the town government to communicate with Governor Maura Healey, Attorney General Andrea Campbell, the State Legislature, and all other relevant authorities to employ all means available to ensure that the law is enforced and to ensure further that Holtec immediately cease the gaseous discharge of the radioactively and chemically contaminated industrial wastewater at Pilgrim?"

Both questions passed with a yes vote.