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By LUKAS DUNFORD

PLAINFIELD — The future of education was a point of contention during Saturday's annual School District and Town meetings.

PLAINFIELD — Elise Angelillo beat out Trevor Marsh for a three-year term on the Selectboard, 135-100. 

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

PLAINFIELD — Voters will be asked to approve a $500,000 bond to help fund the renovation of the middle school wing at Plainfield Elementary School during the annual School Meeting.

Article of note: A school warrant article seeks support for a $1.5 million renovation of the school, with $1 million to come from a donation and $500,000 to come from a bond. An article on the town warrant would call on Plainfield’s state elected officials to reject expansion of taxpayer funding for private education.

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

EAST BETHEL — The Middle Branch Grange has always been part of Jillian Dean’s life.

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

PLAINFIELD — After hearing a plan to combine the two towns’ middle schools at a joint meeting this week, the Plainfield and Cornish school boards voted unanimously to continue to move forward with considering a merger and to reconvene in a month. They...

Pooh Sprague, of Plainfield, left, talks agriculture with Jim Longacre, right, after seeing him at work in his Plainfield yard and pulling over on his drive home recently. “I had two job offers, just pruning this,” said Longacre, who retired five...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Town officials faced sharp rebukes from residents who are irate over the handling of personnel issues in the police department that left the force with only one police officer and led the former Selectboard chairman to announce his...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — A month after he submitted it, Plainfield Selectboard Chairman Eric Brann said he would rescind his letter of resignation.Instead of departing, Brann said he would remain on the board until the next election at Town Meeting next March.In...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — In a decision that left residents with more questions than answers, the chairman of the town’s Selectboard unexpectedly submitted his resignation earlier this month, stating that he could no longer continue in the job for ethical reasons,...

By STEVE TAYLOR

It was a great conversation starter half a century ago, and, if you lived it, the subject can bring amusement, even awe, to those hearing about it today. That’s the “hand crank” or magneto telephone system that served Meriden Village for nearly 75...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

In 1998, voters of Orford, Fairlee, Vershire and West Fairlee approved a plan to form Rivendell, an interstate school district, with the intent to pool their resources to provide an equitable and sustainable education system for their communities.The...

PLAINFIELD — At the annual school meeting on Saturday, voters reduced a proposed amount for a capital reserve fund from $75,000 to $10,000.They approved all other articles as warned, including an $8.5 million operating budget, 177-58, Superintendent...

PLAINFIELD — In ballot voting on Tuesday, voters elected three to the School Board and one to the Selectboard in uncontested races.Amy S. Lappin won a three-year term on the Selectboard.Meanwhile, Jennifer Rybeck Houde won a two-year term on the...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

PLAINFIELD — Craig John Lanzim, or “C.J.” as he was known, was a role model to many for how to treat others. He had a gift for making people feel valued, whether a close friend or a stranger. He accepted others as they were and exhibited patience and...

By FRANCES MIZE

LYME — From a regulatory standpoint in Lyme, solar panels are no different from a garden shed. A set of zoning amendments on this year’s Town Meeting warrant will ask voters to consider making a distinction.Three municipal buildings already have solar...

Article of note: A school article asks whether voters support the creation of a planning committee to explore creating a collaborative district with the Cornish School District. A separate school article asks whether voters support creating a Middle...

By FRANCES MIZE

MERIDEN — After the blood tests of a child of a Kimball Union Academy faculty member showed elevated levels of lead, subsequent testing of the building that housed the school’s child care center also revealed “trace” levels of the toxic heavy metal,...