ROCKPORT — An unusual special election held Aug. 2 in Rockport resulted in the election of one new school board member to serve on School Administrative District 28 and the Five Town CSD, and completed a process that has been hanging since Annual Town Meeting on June 15.

Out of a field of 16, the voters chose Betsy Saltonstall. The candidates never took out papers, nor intended to run for school board; they arrived on the ballot because some of their fellow citizenry wrote their names in on the June 15 ballot at town meeting because no one in Rockport had stepped up to run for the open seat on the school board. The seat opened up after longtime school board member Gretchen Richards decided not to run again.

Saltonstall has served on the school boards and will be returning for another three-year term.

The results are as follows:

Gordon Best, 3

Owen Casas, 3

Keirstin Delano, 1

Kathryn Foss, 1

Peter Hall, 3

Kimberly Haines, 4

Eliza Haselton, 2

Frances Hodgkins, 1

Lowell Jones, 1

William Leone, 1

Kathleen Meil, 1

Geoff Parker, 0

Jennifer Roper, 16

Lorraine Ryan, 0

Elizabeth Saltonstall, 45

Mary Smyth, 0

Sam Temple, 1 (write-in)