HUDSON – The $17.55 million warrant article funding renovations and improvements at Alvirne High School has failed.

Warrant Article 1 called for the design, construction and equipping of additions and renovations to the aging school. Included in that figure was several safety improvements, which school officials said were necessary.

This is the third time a renovation warrant article has failed.

Elected to the Hudson School District Board of Education was Patty Langlais and Ethan Beals.

Other items passed on the school side included the general operating budget, which includes full-day kindergarten.

On the town side, David Morin earned 1,838 votes to win the open selectman seat. Caitlin Chiquelin got 1,227 votes, while Jonathan Simoneau got 505.

There were no other contested races on the town ballot. Winners include: Patti Barry (town cleerk/tax collector); Nichole DeJesus, Jose Urrutia and Richard Weissgarber (budget committee); David Alukonis (cemetery trustee); Michael MacDonald and Todd Terrien (code of ethics); Barbara Blue and Mimi Guessfern (library turstee); Paul Inderbitzen (monderator); Kathleen Leary and Lana Paliy (supervisor of the checklist); Rachael Burnell (treasurer) and Harry Schibanoff (trustee of the trust fund).

Warrant Article 5, providing for the police facility expansion and renovation failed to get the 3/5th vote needed, with 2,208 for and 1,815 against.

Three other warrant articles failed – Article 26, which was to increase of conservation commission membership; Article 27, which called for the replacement of the roof of the kitchen building at Benson Park; and Article 28, which would have repealed the ID requirements for volunteers.

All other warrant articles pass, including Article 23, which will allow for sports betting in Hudson.

A total of 4,156 people voted in the town election.

MILFORD

The Wadleigh Library Renovation and Expansion Project – Article 3 – failed to garner its 60%-required vote, falling 1,726 against and 1,214 for. The Milford Emergency Communications Dispatch Center, Infrastructure Project – Article 4 – also failed to garner the 60%-percent required vote, falling 15,59 yes to 1,370 no. Article 5, for dispatch center upgrades, also went down, with 2,476 against to 427 for.

AMHERST

In Amherst, the only contested race was for cemetery trustee. Marie Grella beat out Francis “Frank” Beaudoin, 1,651-689. In uncontested races, the winners were: Thomas Grella (selectman); Stephen Coughlan (moderator); Nancy Demers (town cleerk); James Ramsay and Charles Vars (zoning board); Michael Parisi (trustee of the trust fund); Lucienne Foulks and Nancy Head (library trustee); and Donella “Donni” Hodgkins (supervisor of the checklist).

All articles on the town side passed, including Article 32 for the Amherst Street Side Path.

On the school ballot, Terri Behm and Josh Conklin both earned school board seats. Behm got 1,499 votes, while Conklin got 1,303 votes. John Glover received 1,203 votes. No other contested races were on the school ballot. Uncontested winners were: Nathaniel Jensen (schoo district moderator); Catherine Jo Butler (school district treasurer); and Butler again for school district clerk.