Isaacs Top Vote Getter in Council Race; Newcomers Win Big in School Committee

With 200 mail ballots yet to be counted, East Greenwich will see many new faces on the Town Council and School Committee next year.

In the Town Council race, Michael B. Isaacs (R), currently the council president, was the top vote getter with 3,284 votes, or 15.9 percent. He is followed by Mark Schwager (D), with 2,888 votes; Suzanne McGee Cienki (R), with 2,827 votes; Sean M. Todd (R), with 2,552 votes; and William C. Stone (D), with 2,500 votes.

Unless mail ballots push Edward J. Field (R), who sits sixth with 2,325 votes, over Stone, the makeup of the new council will continue a Republican majority.

Meanwhile in the School Committee race, newcomer Yan Sun, an Independent, stole the show as the top vote getter with 2,782 votes. She ran a spirited campaign along with fellow candidates Michael P. Fain (I), who finished with 2,687 votes; and David Osborne, a Democrat, who finished fourth with 2,472 votes.

Finishing third was Mary Ellen Winters, the lone incumbent reelected to the committee, with 2,593 votes.

David R. Green (R), who currently serves as the School Committee’s chairman, appears to have lost his seat after finishing fifth with 2,279 votes. Also losing a spot was Jack Sommer, who earned the fewest amount of votes with 1,781.