Brookline Town Election 2012: Results - Uekermann for Library Trustee [POLL]

By only about 40 votes, the unofficial version of the Town Election results show that was elected as a Brookline Library Trustee in . The sheet shows a very close race, with 1138 votes to Puja Mehta, and 1177 to Uekermann, with 695 blank votes. 

The results also say that 3,010 people, out of Brookline's over 37,400 voters turned out to cast their votes--roughly 8 percent. This was a slight increase over last year, which saw 2,800--about 7.4 percent. 

In three of the town's 16 precincts, write-in votes elected new Town Meeting Members, each where one of the 15 seats would have gone empty. In Precinct 11, a write-in campaign secured 28 votes for Shanna Giora-Gorfajn (who is a ). In Precinct 10, for a one year seat, Marian Hersherson secured a seat with 9 votes, and in Precinct 15, Cornelia Vanderziel garnered 19 votes, beating the other write-in candidates.

Below are the full results for Brookline town meeting, according to the unofficial results (see PDF at right): 

Selectmen

• Betsy DeWitt - 94 Upland Road. (Re-election)
• Kenneth Goldstein - 111 Holland Road. (Re-election)

Moderator

• Edward "Sandy" Gadsby - 60 Glen Road. (Re-election)

Constable

• Joseph Figler - 276 Cypress Street.

Town Clerk 

• Patrick Ward - 12 Edwin Road. (Re-election)

Trustees of the Public Library

• Carol Axelrod - 323 Clark Road. (Re-election)
• Vivien Goldman - 19 Conant Road. (Re-election)
• Regina Healy - 10 Griggs Terrace. (Re-election)
• Carol Trohen Lohe - 25 Salisbury Road.

For a two-year term:

• Kristen Uekermann - 147 Mason Terrace.

School Committee 

• Barbara Scotto - 26 Crowninshield Road. (Re-election)
• Pen-Hau "Ben" Chang - 342 Tappan Street.
• Abigail Schoenbaum Cox - 18 Osborne Road.  

Precinct 1 – Contested

Vote for up to five candidates for three-year terms:

• Cathleen Cavell - 27 Monmouth Court. (Re-election)
• Neil Gordon - 87 Ivy Street. (Re-election)
• Carol Hillman - 287 Kent Street. (Re-election)
• Barry Miller - 1160 Beacon Street. (Re-election)
• Sean Lynn-Jones - 53 Monmouth Street

For a two-year term:

• James Franco - 126 Amory Street

For a one-year term:

• Jonathan Cutler - 12 Churchill Street

Precinct 2

• Barbara O'Brien - 342 Saint Paul Street. (Re-election)
• Linda Olson Pehlke - 48 Browne Street. (Re-election)
• Edward Richmond - 74 Parkman Street. (Re-election)
• Eunice White - 135 Pleasant Street. (Re-election)
• Susan Roberts - 69 Green Street

Precinct 3

• Kathe Sternbach Geist - 551 Brookline Avenue. (Re-election)
• Jane Gilman - 140A Sewall Avenue. (Re-election)
• Laurence Kragen Koff - 20 Harrison Street. (Re-election)
• Dennis Doughty - 57 Perry Street
• Donald Gene Leka 140A Sewall Avenue

Precinct 4 – Contested

• Sarah Axelrod - 41 Bowker Street. (Re-election)
• Edith Brickman - 33 Pond Avenue. (Re-election)
• Ingrid Cooper -30 Brook Street. (Re-election)
• Frank Farlow - 8 Bowker Street. (Re-election)
• Martha Farlow - 8 Bowker Street. (Re-election)
• Nadine Gertds - 56 Linden Place. (Re-election)
• Sharon McCarrell - 82 Brook Street. (Re-election)
• John Mulhane - 45 Brook Street. (Re-election)
• Mariah Nobrega - 6 Juniper Street. (Re-election)
• Joseph Robinson - 41 Brook Street. (Re-election)
• Virginia Smith - 12 Linden Street. (Re-election)
• David Trietsch - 52 Linden Place. (Re-election)
• Carlos Ernesto Morales - 32 Juniper Street
• Marjorie Siegel - 59 Linden Street
• Robert Volk -  45 Linden Street

Precinct 5 

• Richard Allen - 158 Cypress Street. (Re-election)
• Blake Cady - 24 Walnut Place. (Re-election)
• Dennis DeWitt - 94 Upland Road. (Re-election)
• Betsy Shure Gross - 25 Edgehill Road. (Re-election)
• David Hamlin - 6 Wellington Terrace. (Re-election)
• Hugh Mattison - 209 Pond Avenue. (Re-election)
• Randolph Meiklejohn - 161 Cypress Street. (Re-election)
• Phyllis O'Leary - 16 Jamaica Road. (Re-election)
• Andrew Olins, 242 Walnut Street. (Re-election)
• Lenore von Krusenstiern - 302 Walnut Street. (Re-election)
• Niel Wishinsky - 20 Henry Street. (Re-election)
• Angela Hyatt - 87 Walnut Street
• Puja Mehta - 50 Jamaica Road
• Claire Stampfer - 50 Sargent Crossway

Precinct 6 – Contested

• Catherine Anderson - 106 Davis Avenue. (Re-election)
• John Bassett - 26 Searle Avenue. (Re-election)
• Arthur Wellington Conquest III - 115 Tappan Street. (Re-election)
• Sytske Humphrey - 46 Gardner Road. (Re-election)
• Brian Kane - 4 Lincoln Road. (Re-election)
• Virginia LaPlante - 58 Welland Road. (Re-election)
• M. K. Merelice, 22 White Place. (Re-election)
• Kerry O’Donnell - 42 Brington Road. (Re-election)
• Clinton Richmond - 3 Greenough Circle. (Re-election)
• Ian Roffman - 20 Searle Avenue. (Re-election)
• Kim Smith - 22 Brington Road. (Re-election)
• Ruthann Sneider - 30 Perry Street. (Re-election)
• Robert Sperber - 21 Lowell Road. (Re-election)
• Christopher Dempsey - 43 Brington Road
• Ian Polumbaum - 17 Blake Road

Precinct 7 – Contested

For three-year terms:

• Susan Cohen - 23 Littell Road. (Re-election)
• Susan Ellis - 431 Washington Street. (Re-election)
• Elizabeth Goldstein - 66 Perry Street. (Re-election)
• Jonathan Margolis - 49 Harvard Avenue. (Re-election)
• Sloan Sable - 50 Harris Street. (Re-election)

Precinct 8

• Francis Caro - 27 Elba Street. (Re-election)
• Maya French - 9 Bradford Terrace. (Re-election)
• David-Marc Goldstein - 22 Osborne Road. (Re-election)
• Anita Johnson - 41 Osborne Road. (Re-election)
• Lisamarie Sears - 137 Fuller Street

Precinct 9 – Contested

For three-year terms:

• Joyce Jozwicki - 183 Winchester Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
• Pamela Katz - 29 Columbia Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
• William Powell - 16 Columbia Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
• Martin Rosenthal - 62 Columbia Street. (Candidate for Re-election)
• Judith Vanderkay - 16 Columbia Street

For a two-year term:

• Julius Levine - 40 Williams Street

For a one-year term:

• Liza Brooks - 36 Russell Street

Precinct 10 

For three-year terms:

• Linda Davis - 125 Park Street. (Re-election)
• Wendy Henry - 1401 Beacon. (Re-election)
• Finn Peter Skagestad - 24 Griggs Terrace. (Re-election)
• Benjamin Stern - 125 Park Street. (Re-election)
• Michael Sanders-  677 Washington Street

For a one-year term:

• Marian Hersherson (Write-in)

Precinct 11

• Dixon Bain - 69 Summit Avenue. (Re-election)
• Paula de Fougerolles - 66 Summit Avenue. (Re-election)
• Joseph Ditkoff - 145 Mason Terrace. (Re-election)
• Joanne Homer - 69 Summit Avenue. (Re-election)
• Bobbie Knable - 243 Mason Terrace. (Re-election)
• Kenneth Lewis - 232 Summit Avenue. (Re-election)
• David Lowe - 177 Mason Terrace. (Re-election)
• Rebecca Plaut Mautner - 12 York Terrace. (Re-election)
• Maryellen Moran - 100 Winchester Street. (Re-election)
• Josh Tolkoff - 39 Jordan Road. (Re-election)
• Kristin Uekermann - 147 Mason Terrace. (Re-election)
• Karen Wenc - 84 Summit Avenue. (Re-election)
• Scott Bookman - 1600 Beacon Street
• Carol Oldham - 1496 Beacon Street
• Shanna Giora-Gorfajn (Write-in) (a )

Precinct 12 – Contested

• Michael Burstein - 50 Garrison Road. (Re-election) (A )
• Bruce Cohen - 289 Tappan Street. (Re-election)
• Lee Cooke-Childs - 136 Rawson Road. (Re-election)
• Harry Friedman - 27 Claflin Road. (Re-election)
• Jonathan Grand - 120 Beaconsfield Road. (Re-election)
• Stefanie Greenfield - 154 University Road. (Re-election)
• Casey Hatchett - 84 University Road. (Re-election)
• Amy Hummel - 226 Clark Road. (Re-election)
• Jonathan Karon - 124 Winthrop Road. (Re-election)
• David Klafter - 63 Winthrop Road. (Re-election)
• Judy Meyers - 75 Clinton Road. (Re-election)
• William Slotnick - 118 Gardner Road. (Re-election)
• Donald Weitzman - 123 Buckminster Road. (Re-election)
• Chad Ellis - 26 Chesham Road
• Mark Lowenstein - 158 Winthrop Road

Precinct 13 – Contested

• Carla Benka - 26 Circuit Road. (Re-election)
• Roger Blood - 69 Cleveland Road. (Re-election)
• Chris Chanyasulkit - 16 Corey Road. (Re-election)
• Jonathan Fine - 57 Willow Crescent. (Re-election)
• Andrew Fischer - 21 Bartlett Crescent. (Re-election)
• John Freeman - 530 Clinton Road. (Re-election)
• Francis Charlton Hoy - 295 Reservoir Road. (Re-election)
• Ruth Kaplan - 24 Spooner Road. (Re-election)
• Werner Loje - 25 Salisbury Road. (Re-election)
• Paul Saner - 462 Chestnut Hill Avenue. (Re-election)
• Lee Selwyn - 285 Reservoir Road. (Re-election)
• Barbara Senecal - 345 Clinton Road. (Re-election)
• John VanScoyoc - 307 Reservoir Road. (Re-election)
• Joanna Baker - 1824 Beacon Street
• John Doggett - 8 Penniman Road

Precinct 14 – Contested

• Robert Basile - 333 Heath Street. (Re-election)
• Clifford M. Brown, 9 Hyslop Road. (Re-election)
• Linda Carlisle - 233 Fisher Avenue. (Re-election)
• Gill Fishman - 79 Holland Road. (Re-election)
• Deborah Goldberg - 37 Hyslop Road. (Re-election)
• Georgia Johnson - 80 Seaver Street. (Re-election)
• Roger Lipson - 622 Chestnut Hill Avenue. (Re-election)
• Pamela C. Lodish, 195 Fisher Avenue. (Re-election)
• Cameron Merrill - 119 Eliot Street. (Re-election)
• Chou Chou Merrill - 149 Eliot Street. (Re-election)
• Michael Merrill - 149 Eliot Street. (Re-election)
• Shaari S. Mittel - 309 Buckminster Road. (Re-election)
• Paula Friedman - 170 Hyslop Road 
• Fred Levitan - 1731 Beacon Street
• Benjamin Rich - 130 Buckminster Road

Precinct 15

• Edwin Alexanderian - 945 Hammond Street. (Re-election)
• Mariela Ames  -25 Whitney Street. (Re-election)
• Anthony Andreadis - 687 Heath Street. (Re-election)
• Eileen Connell Berger - 112 Wolcott Road. (Re-election)
• Michael Berger - 112 Wolcott Road. (Re-election)
• Paula Jo Coelho - 559 Heath Street. (Re-election)
• Jane Flanagan - 854 Hammond Street. (Re-election)
• John Hall - 85 Sears Road. (Re-election)
• Janice Kahn - 63 Craftsland Road. (Re-election)
• Richard Nangle - 854 Hammond Street. (Re-election)
• William Arthur Reilly - 47 Grove Street. (Re-election)
• James Rourke, Jr. - 679 Hammond Street. (Re-election)
• Deborah Rudman - 320 Woodland Road. (Re-election)
• Ab Sadeghi-Nejad - 125 Arlington Road. (Re-election)

Precinct 16

• Robert Allen - 296 Russett Road. (Re-election)
• Danilo Avalon - 9 Goodnough Road. (Re-election)
• Beverly Basile - 902 West Roxbury Parkway. (Re-election)
• Regina Frawley - 366 Russett Road. (Re-election)
• Thomas Gallitano - 146 Bonad Road. (Re-election)
• Scott Gladstone - 383 Russett Road. (Re-election)
• Alisa Jonas - 333 Russett Road. (Re-election)
• Gerald Koocher - 285 Beverly Road. (Re-election)
• Joshua Safer - 223 Bonad Road. (Re-election)
• Arthur Sneider - 223 Beverly Road. (Re-election)
• Joyce Stavis-Zak - 44 Intervale Road. (Re-election)
• John Basile - 1040 West Roxbury Parkway
• Stephen Chiumenti - 262 Russett Road
• William Pu - 249 Beverly Road
• Irene Scharf - 250 Russett Road
• Cornelia Vanderziel (Write-in candidate)