With Town Meeting 2024 concluded, election season will now begin to ramp up, with town elections coming in roughly a month. Marblehead elections almost always result in some sort of change, whether its new members or the reconfiguration of boards afterward.
In 1983, those changes took place in May, according to a May 10 article in The Daily Evening Item, with both the Select Board and School Committee reorganizing that week, “each with a new member seated in a year where critical decisions regarding the future of the town and its educational system must be faced.
The article, written by Bill Rolfe, states that voters elected by “wide margins two political newcomers” in JoAnne Mayer for the Select Board and Ed Clisby for the School Committee. According to the article, Mayer was a former president of the Marblehead League of Women Voters. Mayer placed third in the race for a seat on the Select Board.
After losing narrowly the year before, Clisby “mounted a formidable campaign,” according to Wolfe, and received the most votes in the School Committee race.