By Renee Worthing
Staff Writer
In Kennebunk, voters contributed 907 votes to Tom Allen’s June 10 Democratic bid for the U.S. Senate, while Kennebunkport gave him 333 votes.
As of June 11, according to the Bangor Daily News, Allen secured 85 percent of votes, while contender Thomas Ledue earned 14 percent of the votes statewide.
Voters in Kennebunk gave Ledue 122 votes, while 39 Kennebunkport voters gave him the thumbs up.
Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins, who was unopposed, earned 430 votes in Kennebunkport and 882 in Kennebunk.
Republican First District Congressional contender Charlie Summers won 502 votes in Kennebunk and 244 in Kennebunkport, putting him ahead of Peter Scontras’ 425 votes in Kennebunk and 208 in Kennebunkport.
More than 490 Kennebunk voters supported Chellie Pingree’s bid for Democratic First District Congressional nominee, while 179 Kennebunkport voters gave her the nod.
 Contender Adam Cote was close behind with 118 Kennebunk votes and 302 from Kennebunkport. Statewide, Pingree earned 44 percent of votes, while Cote claimed 28 percent.
Ethan Strimling’s total votes of 125 from both towns was one more than Mark Lawrence earned. Kennebunkport gave Strimling 22 votes and Lawrence 24 votes, but in Kennebunk, Strimling won 103 votes and Lawrence, 100.
Locally, Michael Brennan came in fifth, but statewide results placed him 139 votes ahead of Strimling and 3,066 votes ahead of Lawrence.
Stephen Meister claimed one vote from Kennebunkport and seven from Kennebunk.
In Kennebunkport, 262 voters supported Donna Bailey for Judge of Probate, while incumbent Robert Nadeau received 99 votes. In Kennebunk, Bailey received 629 votes to Nadeau’s 367.
Countywide, Bailey claimed 63 percent of the vote and Nadeau received 36 percent.
Voters in both towns supported the statewide bond issue which sought approval for a $29,725,000 bond for natural resources, agriculture and transportation infrastructure that would leverage $29,780,000 in other funds.
Of the 2,516 ballots cast in Kennebunk, 1,662 voters approved the bond. In Kennebunkport, 739 of the 1,063 voters approved.
  Kennebunk voters were asked to cast their ballots for selectman between two candidates, Robert Higgins and Patrick Gregorich.
Higgins’ 107-vote lead over Gregorich’s 1,053 landed Higgins another term on the Kennebunk Board of Selectmen.
Matthew Lanigan, the uncontested candidate for Kennebunkport’s three-year term as selectman said there are a “number of things” he wants to continue to work on, including the revaluation process which began earlier this month.
He said he is happy the contract zoning passed and said it will be a “valuable tool.”
Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells Water District Trustee Robert Emmons won 1,547 votes to challenger Iris Sherman’s 584 votes.
A three-year School Administrative District 71 director seat was filled by Kennebunk’s unopposed candidate Cathy Kremer, while Maureen King and Norman Archer filled the two slots for Kennebunkport’s two expired terms.
King received 693 votes from Kennebunkport voters, while Archer won 584 votes.
Archer said it was an honor to be selected to serve as a director of MSAD 71.
He said he was “well served” by the district when he attended and said he hopes to help it grow.
“My interests lie in identifying the aspirations of each student and helping them reach their goals,” he said.
He said he wanted to tackle the issue of declining enrollment in the schools and also help decide whether Arundel schools would be part of MSAD 71.
“There is a huge disconnect with Augusta,” Archer said.
He said poor planning and budget cuts in Augusta created problems for Maine schools.
“We have to manage Augusta,” he said. “We are being force fed their policies.”
He said school districts in northern Maine should not be handled the same as districts in more populated southern Maine.
“The silver bullet approach does not apply,” Archer said of Gov. John Baldacci’s school consolidation law.
“I’m looking forward to rolling up my sleeves,” he said. “I’m sure I’ll listen more than talk at first.”