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“Please Welcome” Dave Skehan John Grande -our new service management team 546 Providence Rd Whitinsville, MA 01588 (508) 266-6021 Mailed free to requesting homes in Douglas, Northbridge and Uxbridge Vol. V, No. 31 Complimentary to homes by request ONLINE: WWW.BLACKSTONEVALLEYTRIBUNE.COM Friday, May 18, 2012 THIS WEEK’S Hughes, Gonynor elected to Board of Selectmen QUOTE BROWN LOSES OUT BY ONLY ONE VOTE, RECOUNT EXPECTED “What worries you masters you.” BY ADAM T. SILVA the hospital that fateful election With any race as close as the TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER morning with painful kidney selectmen’s, a recount is a natu- Haddon W. Robinson DOUGLAS — “Every vote stones and was unable to vote, ral response. As of Monday, May counts” is an understatement. leaving him only one vote shy. 14, Brown expressed interest in In a three-way, two-seat The election had a paltry 11 seeking a recount. In order for Douglas Board of Selectmen race percent turnout, with only two that to happen, he would have to Tuesday, May 8, political new- contested races, the Selectmen obtain 10 signatures from each of INSIDE comer Keith Brown came in third and Planning Board. the town’s three precincts and with 360 votes, a mere one vote The Planning Board contest return them by Friday, May 18. A2-3— LOCAL behind Don Gonynor’s 361 and was almost as close as the Board “Every election is surprising in incumbent first-place winner of Selectmen, with Douglas polit- it’s own way,” said former A4-5— OPINION Michael Hughes’ 372.
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