Needham Town Election Results 2013: Grimes Wins Planning Board

Needham went out to the polls yesterday to elect members of the Planning Board, School Committee and Town Meeting, as well as casting votes in a number of uncontested races for other town officials. The main races were for School Committee and Planning Board. 

Candidates Artie Crocker and Elizabeth Grimes went head to head for one seat on the planning board. Netting a little over 100 votes more than her opponent, Grimes won the seat, 1,225 to 1,116 votes. 

School Committee had three seats to fill, and four candidates. The newcomer, David Ecsedy, netted 633 votes, which was not enough to unseat the three incumbent candidates, Joseph Barnes, Jr. Constance Barr and Marianne Cooley, each of whom had over a thousand votes apiece. 

According to the results sheet posted on the Town Clerk's site, the town processed 2,442 votes. Meaning around 8 percent of the town's population turned out to the polls yesterday.

Below are the full results from yesterday's election.

Town Election results

One Moderator for One Year

• Michael Fee (unopposed)

One Selectman for Three Years

• Daniel Matthews (unopposed)

One Town Clerk for Three Years

• Theodora Eaton (unopposed)

One Assessor for Three Years

• Thomas Colarusso (unopposed)

Three Members of School Committee for Three Years

• Joseph Barnes, Jr.
• Constance Barr
• Marianne Cooley

One Trustee of Memorial Park (trustee of soldiers’ memorials – veteran) for Three Years

• Charles Mangine (unopposed)

One Trustee of Memorial Park (trustee of soldiers’ memorials – non-veteran) for Three Years

• Joseph McSweeney (unopposed)

Two Trustees of Needham Public Library for Three Years

• Lois Bacon
• Rose Doherty

One Member of Board of Health for Three Years

• Stephen Epstein (unopposed)

One Member of Planning Board for Five Years

• Elizabeth Grimes

One Member of Needham Housing Authority for Five Years

• Andrew Cohen (unopposed)

One Commissioner of Trust Funds for Three Years

• Joseph Scalia (unopposed)

One Commissioner of Trust Funds for One Year

• Barry Coffman (unopposed)

Two Members of Park and Recreation Commission for Three Years

• Cynthia Chaston
• Michael Retzky

Town Meeting Members

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct A for Three Years

• Dennis Carothers
• Walter Herrick 
• Suzanne Fiering Nissen 
• James Allan Scott
• Irwin Silverstein 
• Nina Silverstein 
• Michael Miller

Two Town Meeting Members from Precinct A for Two Years

• John Diodato
• Van Spiros

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct B for Three Years

• Francis Arren 
• George Baierlein
• William Doyle 
• John Frankenthaler
• Richard Freedberg 
• Glenn Orenstein
• Gerald Rovner 
• Dorothea Von Herder

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct C for Three Years

• William Dugan, Jr. 
• John Haslip 
• Adelaide Young 
• 34 Write-in votes

One Town Meeting Member from Precinct C for One Year

• Paula Callanan

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct D for Three Years

• Michelle Dhanda
• Reginald Foster
• Christopher Gerstel
• Aaron Pressman 
• Aaron Remorenko 
• Carl Ship 
• Arthur Walitt 
• Thomas John Crimlisk

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct E for Three Years

• Edward Cosgrove III 
• Walter Decker 
• Kurt Mullen 
• Ronald Ruth 
• Paul Siegenthaler
• Gerald Silverstein 
• Theodore Weiner 
• Risa Greendlinger

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct F for Three Years

• Barry Coffman
• Jeffrey Heller
• Carolyn McIver
• Kenneth Scott Muldoon
• William Okerman 
• Michael Verdun 
• Leslie Kalish 
• Karen Price

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct G for Three Years

• Peter Beacham, Jr. 
• Michael Crawford 
• Michael Distler 
• Kenneth Freundlich 
• Gary Michael Kaufman 
• Timothy Tierney 
• John Crimmings 
• David Konieczynski

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct H for Three Years

• Isabel Avedikian
• Michael Diener
• John Kingston
• Jeffrey Kristeller 
• Laura London
• Richard Savage, Jr. 
• Jeffrey Shapiro

One Town Meeting Member from Precinct H for Two Years

• Thomas Edward Gillogley

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct I for Three Years

• Artie Crocker
• Stephen Kagan 
• Josephine Ochalla 
• Nicholas Renzulli 
• Anne Weinstein
• Kathleen Whitney 
• Janet Carter Bernardo
• Peter Pingitore

Eight Town Meeting Members from Precinct J for Three Years

• Robert Deutsch 
• Kevin Keane 
• George Kent 
• David Montgomery 
• Christopher Mooney 
• Peter Sergey Panov
• 53 Write-in votes

[Correction: The races for Precincts F and I previously listed all ten candidates, and did not eliminate the two who were not elected. This has been corrected. 4:24 p.m.]