ANDOVER — A total 50 votes separated who the residents of Andover elected to the School Committee during Town Election Tuesday.
Unofficial results at 8:40 p.m. Tuesday showed Dave Crow, a strategic account director, edged out retired high school principal Timothy McCarron to take the committee seat.
Crow received 1,238 votes to Timothy McCarron’s 1,188. McCarron had received the endorsement of the Andover Education Association.
“I am humbled and grateful to the town and am honored to serve,” Crow said. “It was a close race. We have a lot of work to do and I look forward to getting started.”
Select Board incumbent Laura Gregory also retained her seat. Gregory has served on the board since 2017. She overwhelmingly beat her challengers Larry Bruce and George Thorlin.
Gregory received 1,430 votes with 60.9% of residents choosing her. Thorlin tallied 710 votes while Bruce collected 209 votes.
A steady flow of voters stepped into the Cormier Youth Center, one of the town’s polling centers, as residents cast their ballot to determine contested races of Select Board and School Committee seats during the day of Town Election.
There were also uncontested races for Trustees of the Punchard Free School, town moderator and Andover Housing Authority terms.
Some voters carried specific concerns about key races, either focused on the Select Board or the School Committee, while others showed up to simply fulfill what they felt was a civic duty to Andover.
Others arrived with more preference for town leadership, like William Haskell, who was closely following the race for Select Board positions, and favored the current members.
“I have a strong interest in who was running for the Select Board, and I like the incumbent,” Haskell said.
Resident Jennifer Bouchard said she was just doing her civic duty by casting a ballot.
Other voters said they were prompted to vote in the election with concerns about the School Committee’s future and its hiring of the school district’s next superintendent.
They said stating they wanted someone with more experience in the public school system.