Pair of incumbents and one other win in Taneytown

Incumbents James L. McCarron and Jacquelyn J. Boisvert won re-election yesterday to the Taneytown City Council, while Paul E. Chamberlain Jr. took the other contested seat in the biennial municipal election.

Eight candidates were vying for the three seats on the five-member council; the others and the mayoral office will be on the ballot in 2007.

Little more than an eighth of the city's 2,623 registered voters cast ballots, with Boisvert receiving the most. with 179 votes. McCarron received 152; Chamberlain received 147; and runner-up Amy Stenley Murphey was a distant fourth with 111 votes.

McCarron, 57, a mortgage broker long active in the Maryland Municipal League, will serve a sixth four-year term, while Boisvert, 58, a bookkeeper, will be serving her fifth term, although not consecutively.

Chamberlain, 46, an employee of Beckley's Camping Center in Thurmont, has been a city resident for fewer than three years and said during his campaign that the small city of 6,100 needs new blood and new ideas.

The three will be sworn in at the monthly council session Monday.