Turnout was low but voter satisfaction was high in the school and town elections earlier this week.

All the warrant articles on the town and school ballots passed on Tuesday. Most were by comfortable margins, including a $3.7 million operating budget for the town and a $10.2 million operating budget for the school district.

In the election for local offices, Christine Quirk edged out Peter Kucmas for a single seat on the Board of Selectmen and Monika Wright won an uncontested race for the School Board.

No candidate filed for a second open seat on the board. Joe Constance won that second seat with 70 write-in votes.

Other winning candidates were the following: Gregg Peirce for cemetery trustee, Candace Woodbury for library trustee, Lee Nyquist for town moderator, Cathleen Strausbaugh for supervisor of the checklist, Karen Johnson for town treasurer and Thomas Manson for trustee of the trust funds. Also, Wayne Blassberg beat George St. John for fire ward by one vote, 731 to 730.

Out of a total of 3,750 registered voters, 959, or 25 percent, showed up at the polling place, according to Town Clerk Irene Baudreau.

“It’s disappointing, the small turnout we had,” Baudreau said. In all, not counting the article for election of officers, there were 32 articles on the town ballot that got the nod from voters.

Nearly a dozen of them dealt with spending. The largest was $3,720,780 for the town operating budget.

The rest involved smaller expenses, such as $60,000 for the refurbishment of the town main water attack vehicle, $85,000 for improvements to Bedford Road, $55,000 installment for the future purchase of Highway Department trucks, and $65,000 to replace the bridge on Lyndeboro Road.

The items on the ballot were generally run-of-the-mill, according to selectman Gordon Carlstrom. “This year, there really isn’t anything that is a huge controversy out there,” Carlstrom said.

Most of the articles passed by wide margins. But a $150,000 proposal for a footbridge over the Piscataquog River squeaked through by only 15 votes, with 480 voting yes. The bridge will connect the Mill Pond Conservation area with land owned by the New Boston Tavern.

Of the total cost, $120,000 will be funded by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation, $19,000 will be raised in taxes and the rest will come from the New Boston Foot Traffic Road Safety Committee.

Voters also took a stand on taxes Tuesday. They signed off on a statement, authored by the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition, declaring that the property tax has become unjust and unfair and calling upon state officials to have an open discussion on all revenue options.

The election further affected taxes on the local level. New Boston voters granted exemptions for solar and wind power systems and boosted the exemption limits on income and assets for elderly and disabled taxpayers.