NEW VINEYARD -- Voters kept a tight lid on budget requests, covering 2008 costs without raising taxes.

Voters approved borrowing $244,000 to add to funds needed to repair the Barker Road.

Citizens re-elected Earl Luce as road commissioner, Fay Adams as selectman, Ann Sullivan and Adrienne Rollo to the planning board. Brent Laflin will be an associate planning board member, and Scott Webber will serve the remainder of SAD 9 director Ted Ellis' term.

Voters approved $28,000 from surplus to pay for extra winter road costs and an additional $150,000 to reduce the tax commitment.

Selectmen received approval to consider bids of up to $120,000 for plowing 27.7 miles of roads next winter.

Planning board chairman Richard Hargreaves explained some of the changes he asked voters to approve in the updated subdivision ordinance.

"We spent many months on this and came out with an ordinance that covered things we knew we needed as a town, rather than just adopting the general guideline provided by the state," he said.