KINGSTON — Voters in the May 16 town election decided on Sheila Vaughn and Joseph Cunningham over other first-time candidates for Select Board, while Peter Fitzgerald and Jennifer Krowchun took two uncontested School Committee seats, according to preliminary results released by the town.
Vaughn is a member of the School Committee and served on the Select Board from 2021 to 2024, when she lost her re-election bid to Kimberley Emberg and Melissa Bateman. She is the director of the admissions and recruitment office at Cape Cod Community College.
Cunningham works as an electrician and serves as the chair of the Recreation Commission and a member of the Kingston 300th Committee. He topped the ballot with 498 votes.
Candidates Timothy Ballinger and Paul Dahlen lost their races for Select Board with 381 and 330 votes, respectively. Ballinger worked for the Kingston police department for 21 years until his retirement in 2018, and he said in an interview with the Local Seen that he now works for the Council on Aging. Dahlen is the chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals and ran another unsuccessful campaign for the Select Board in 2019.
Jennifer Krowchun, who works in federal lobbying at O’Neill and Associates, won re-election to the School Committee after being appointed to it October 2025 to fill a vacancy. First-term candidate Peter Fitzgerald will fill another seat on the School Committee.
All races were uncontested besides the Select Board and Board of Health, with two spots filled by Heidi Whipple and Lauren Hache.
Paul Gallagher was re-elected as town clerk, and Michael Cowett was elected to his first term as town moderator after current Town Moderator Sean O’Brian declined to run.
Since Vaughn’s School Committee term expires in 2028, her election to the Select Board leaves an open seat on the Committee.
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