Barton voters handled the town’s municipal business during Tuesday night’s annual meeting

Barton voters handled the town’s municipal business during Tuesday night’s annual meeting, passing the select board and highway budgets and electing a new select board member. The meeting was a return to an entire floor meeting for Barton following a vote to change from its hybrid model last year. Barton had previously decided elections and ballot questions by Australian ballot and handled money matters from the floor. The change to a floor meeting was decided by a wide margin last year in a vote conducted by Australian ballot, noted Town Clerk Kristin Atwood. Barton residents elected Dee McDowell to the select board in a paper ballot over fellow nominee Jeff Como. McDowell received 47 votes to Como’s 36.  McDowell replaces departing board member and former chair Lenny Zenonos, who did not seek re-election.