Michelle Ecsedy to Replace Stomski

The Woodbury Board of Selectmen is now whole.

First Selectman Bill Butterly and Selectman Martin Overton voted in Michelle Ecsedy during a meeting Thursday.

A longtime Woodbury resident, Ecsedy had been an independent voter for many years until she recently registered as a Republican, according to the Waterbury Republican-American.

The seat Ecsedy takes became vacant when former First Selectman Gerald Stomski declined the seat he earned on the Board of Selectmen. Butterly defeated Stomski in the November election, but Stomski secured enough votes to serve on the board.

According to the Republican-American, Butterly and Overton's decision to vote in Ecsedy ran counter to the person nominated by the Republican Town Committee -- longtime selectman Barbara K. Perkins.