Voting for the third time, 1,967 voters in Durham and Middlefield passed District 13 education budget for next year with the smallest raise in anyone's memory -- less than one percent.

The total vote was 1,090 yes, 877 no, which means that slightly fewer people voted this time around (1,981 votes were cast on June 2; 1,802 were cast in the first referendum on May 5).