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VERSHIRE — Voters approved all warned articles, except one, in Town Meeting voting on Sunday.In a voice vote during the meeting held in-person at...
SOUTH POMFRET — In a special Town Meeting on Saturday morning, Pomfret voters opted to do away with the traditional in-person annual meeting in...
Article of note: In ballot voting on Sunday, voters will be asked whether to purchase a 2022 CAT backhoe that the town is currently leasing by...
BETHEL – Bethel voters approved 117-8 a $2.5 million bond for capital improvements to the town’s water system at the polls last month. The vote was...
POMFRET — Pomfret has scheduled a special town meeting for next week to discuss the format of future town meetings.The special meeting is set for 9...
BRADFORD, Vt. — A small turnout of voters in the Oxbow Unified Union School District approved an $18.4 million budget for the coming year at...
HANOVER — For Town Meeting on Tuesday, Selectboard Chairman Peter Christie had prepared, in his words, “a brilliant and insightful” presentation of...
NEWPORT — Newport said yes in Town Meeting ballot voting on Tuesday.Voters approved bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems, including $10...
HANOVER — Town officials are asking voters to park in the Hovey Lot, behind Hanover High School near the school track, for Town Meeting voting on...
BRADFORD, Vt. — So far, this has been a straightforward year for approval of Vermont school budgets.With the state education fund providing more...
Articles of note: Voters will be asked to approve two separate bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems. A $10 million bond is part of a $23.5...
WINDSOR — The Mount Ascutney School Board on Friday selected a new board member to represent Windsor on the two-town board that also includes West...
HANOVER — Hanover residents are concerned about a Town Meeting warrant article seeking to transfer 5 acres of town-owned land to developers for...
WINDSOR — The Mt. Ascutney School Board is collecting applications for a new board member to represent Windsor on the two-town board that also...
NORWICH — Town officials have announced a special meeting on May 2 for voters to elect two school board members, races for which were inadvertently...
NEWPORT — At the annual Town Meeting on May 9, voters will be asked to approve two bonds for the town’s water and sewer systems for projects to...
WINDSOR — Amy McMullen, who won election to the Mt. Ascutney School Board on Town Meeting Day, has resigned her post on that board, her position as...
NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters approved five zoning amendments. The amendments included: a clarification of the sign regulations;...
LYME — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Leigh Prince and Kristen Roth were the top vote getters in a three-way race for two three-year terms on the...
NEW LONDON — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters of the Kearsarge Regional School District, which includes the Upper Valley towns of New London and...
SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Jeremiah E. Crosby bested George McCusker for a three-year term on the Selectboard, 116-101.
GRANTHAM — In ballot voting on Tuesday, G. Warren Kimball beat Erin Zagadailov for a three-year term on the Grantham Selectboard, 181-137.
CHARLESTOWN — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters rejected petitioned articles that would have had the members of the Charlestown Fire Department...
GRAFTON — Residents remain at odds over what do about the Grafton Public Library after a proposal that would have allocated $210,000 for the first...
UNITY — At a floor meeting on Saturday, voters rejected an article that would have changed South Slack Road from a Class V town-maintained road to...
PLAINFIELD — In voting at Saturday’s floor meeting, voters approved all articles on the warrant.That included a measure to direct the Selectboard...
WOODSTOCK — At Woodstock Village’s annual meeting on Tuesday night, voters approved an article seeking to eliminate elected auditor positions and...
PIERMONT — Voters at the Piermont School District’s annual floor meeting on Tuesday evening approved increasing the town’s current share of tuition...
LYME — In Lyme’s floor meeting on Tuesday night, voters rejected a petitioned article that would have required the Selectboard to perform a “Full...
WINDSOR — The Windsor representative to the Mt. Ascutney School District Board who won a contested race on Town Meeting Day has retained her...
SPRINGFIELD, N.H. — During Saturday’s floor meeting, voters approved a municipal operating budget of $1.8 million.They also supported using $80,000...
HAVERHILL — In the town floor meeting on Saturday afternoon, voters rejected three petitioned warrant articles, including one that would have...
DORCHESTER — Voters at Saturday’s floor Town Meeting approved using a parcel located at 777 North Dorchester Road for a public park and creating a...
ENFIELD — Voters decided against giving 10% of the land use change tax — not to exceed $5,000 — to the town’s Conservation Commission during the...
CROYDON — Avoiding a repeat of last year, voters here turned out in relatively large numbers Saturday to approve the annual school budget.But that...
CORNISH — In a Town Meeting that drew a standing-room-only crowd at the Cornish Elementary School gymnasium on Saturday, voters narrowly approved a...
ORANGE — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters elected Aaron Allen to a three-year term on the Selectboard in an uncontested race.At the floor...
NEW LONDON — Asked to approve a bond to buy property for a new police station, a bigger-than-usual crowd at New London’s Town Meeting stuffed the...
UNITY — Gary Ross won a five-way race for one three-year term on the Unity Selectboard in Tuesday’s ballot voting.With 76 votes, Ross beat out...
PIERMONT — Rick Daley was elected to a three-year term on the Piermont Selectboard in an uncontested race in ballot voting on Tuesday. In an...
ORFORD — For 168 years, the Orford Congregational Church has ministered to the needs of the community.Now the Orford community is being asked to...
ENFIELD — The Conservation Commission will ask voters to create a town forest using 100 acres of town-owned land Saturday in a petitioned warrant...
DORCHESTER — Melissa Howard won an uncontested three-year term on the Selectboard in ballot voting on Tuesday. Elected officials:Number of voters:...
NEWPORT — Voters elected school officials in uncontested races and approved the Newport School District’s proposed budget in ballot voting on...
WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley voters approved all articles on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District ballot.Every town in the district — Canaan...
SUNAPEE — Residents voted against making the town’s fire chief and recreation director full-time positions.The fire chief vote failed by 334 to 455...
CORNISH — In Australian ballot voting on Tuesday, Cornish voters supported three changes to the zoning ordinance.The changes include lifting the...
CROYDON — Angi Beaulieu handily defeated Jody Underwood for a three-year term on the School Board.Beaulieu received 229 votes to Underwood’s 36...
GRAFTON — In Town Meeting Day ballot voting, voters rejected, 182-175, a petitioned article, not supported by the Selectboard or Budget Committee...
ENFIELD — Voters reelected Selectboard chairman John Kluge and elected Tracy Young to three-year terms on the Selectboard.Kluge (258 votes) and...
LEBANON — A hat will be used to help fill the fourth vacancy on the Lebanon School Board.School and city officials will meet Thursday morning at...
CLAREMONT — Voters elected Frank Sprague and Arlene Hawkins to three-year terms on the Claremont School Board on Tuesday.Sprague received 515 votes...
CANAAN — In ballot voting on Tuesday, Canaan voters supported the adoption of an optional property tax exemption for solar energy systems, 303-211...
HAVERHILL — In Town Meeting Day ballot voting, Haverhill voters elected town and school officers.Joseph Longacre and Phil Blanchard were the top...
PLAINFIELD — In uncontested races in Tuesday’s ballot voting, Plainfield voters elected town and school officers.With 96 votes, Christian Forman...
The distance between Cornish’s public library and the town’s shuttered general store is only about 200 yards.But when it comes to whether the town...
Tuesday’s late winter storm, which saw 13 inches of snow pile up in Newport, N.H., by noon, also brought tall stacks of Town Meeting ballots from...
HAVERHILL — The Election Law Unit of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is serving a subpoena to a Manchester-based printer responsible...
In 25 years of covering the Upper Valley, one of the most extraordinary public gatherings I’ve been to was the 2012 Bethel Town Meeting.Unhappy...
WEST LEBANON — Several Upper Valley towns have postponed Town Meeting voting due to an expected winter storm.Charlestown postponed its Town Meeting...