Voters in the Kingdom East School District easily passed the $41 million budget request and filled open board seats

Voters in the Kingdom East School District easily passed the $41 million budget request and filled open board seats. Residents of the district’s eight towns – Burke, Concord, Lyndon, Lunenburg, Newark, Sheffield, Sutton, and Wheelock – cast their votes during all-day balloting in each town. According to preliminary results, the budget request of $41,069,545 passed by a tally of 775 to 385. Contested races for school board seats from Burke and Lyndon were also decided. In Burke, Abigail Montgomery defeated Andrew Miller Brown by a vote of 517 to 355. The pair sought to fill the seat held by longtime board member Tony DeMasi, who concluded his final term after serving over 20 years on school boards.