BARTLETT — Among incumbents who held onto their seats, Gene Chandler, the longest-serving current selectman in the Mount Washington Valley, won another three-year term on Tuesday, a day when non-SB 2 towns held traditional meetings.
Chandler, who has been a town selectman for 47 years, withstood a challenge by Ray Hodgkins, a retired Army colonel, winning 360-226.
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