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By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Three people are vying for two three-year terms on the Hanover Selectboard in Town Meeting voting next week.Voters will be asked to choose from a slate including Kari Asmus, Jarett Berke and incumbent Joanna Whitcomb, the acting Selectboard...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — In the only contested race on the annual Town Meeting ballot, two former Selectboard members and the owner of a local business are challenging the incumbent for a three-year term on the Selectboard in Tuesday’s election.Also on the ballot is...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Hartford Selectboard’s crafting of a new regulatory policy for displaying banner on light posts is leaving a project aimed to honor military veterans in limbo. Selectboard members said at a meeting last week that their...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Voters will have an opportunity on Monday to discuss articles on the proposed town warrant, including new collective bargaining agreements for three employee unions, amendments to the town zoning ordinance and a petitioned resolution to...

By LUKAS DUNFORD

BRADFORD, Vt. — Voters have filed a petition for a revote on a Town Meeting article they say was confusing.The petitioners are seeking to revisit an article rejected at Town Meeting on March 2, which asked whether the town should “cease the scoping,...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

ORFORD — Old rivalries have resurfaced in this town of 1,200 as four candidates compete for two Selectboard seats at Tuesday’s annual Town Meeting. In ballot voting, Selectboard Chairman John Adams squares off against longtime Orford resident Larry...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Voters will be asked at Town Meeting to elect three candidates to the Hartford Selectboard, two of whom will replace board members who did not seek reelection. Rocket, an incumbent who goes by a single name, and three...

NEWPORT — Interim Town Manager and Finance Director Paul Brown presented a proposed operating budget of $9.37 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1 to the Selectboard Monday night.The budget represents a $655,000, or 7.6%, increase from the...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The Selectboard has unanimously approved the hiring of Kyle Harris, borough administrator in Garwood, N.J., as Newport’s next town manager.The board ratified a contract with Harris at its meeting Monday night and announced that Harris will...

FAIRLEE — The Selectboard seeks to fill a seat left vacant by Cathy McGrath, who stepped down on Jan. 16. “Having retired, it is now my moment to travel and explore the country,” her resignation letter said. McGrath, who was re-elected last year,...

By FRANCES MIZE

WOODSTOCK — The Selectboard gave Municipal Manager Eric Duffy permission last week to dig further into the possibility of the town purchasing the Woodstock Aqueduct Co., the town water supplier that has been privately held since 1880.A working group...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

NORWICH — Town officials reached a settlement agreement this month with resident Christopher Katucki to end a nearly three-year lawsuit over allegations that town subcommittees were not complying with Vermont’s open meeting laws. In a settlement with...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

THETFORD — The Selectboard this week declined to bring the issue of noncitizen resident voting to Town Meeting voters in March.The issue was first raised at last year’s Town Meeting by Thetford resident and German citizen Heinz Trebitz, who noted that...

By PATRICK O’GRADY

NEWPORT — The town has reached an agreement with two developers who had filed a court appeal of the water and sewer connection fees the town was charging for two workforce housing projects.Interim Town Manager Paul Brown told the Selectboard Monday...

SUNAPEE — The Sunapee Selectboard canceled its planned Monday night meeting due to an outbreak of COVID-19 in the town office and an inability to have a quorum, according to a town news alert.The Selectboard will next meet on Jan. 8 at 6:30 p.m. for a...

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

THETFORD — Heinz and Inge Trebitz were named “Citizens of the Year” at last year’s Town Meeting for their longstanding service to Thetford, but they were ineligible to vote at the meeting.Selectboard member Steven Tofel is among those who would like...

By FRANCES MIZE

HANOVER — The Hanover Selectboard is considering giving conservation easements it holds on 150 acres and six recreation trails in Lebanon to the city.The easements and trails include the 130-acre Indian Ridge, which abuts the city-managed Boston Lot...

By PATRICK ADRIAN

HANOVER — Residents shared a mix of views about town plans to develop workforce housing on 5 acres of land, which has been subdivided from the conserved Mink Brook Community Forest, at a public forum on Monday.While many participants voiced support...

By JIM KENYON

The parade of white men chosen to serve as town manager in Vermont’s wealthiest community marches on. Brennan Duffy makes seven. For his sake, I hope seven is a lucky number.Since Norwich switched — with voters’ approval — to a town manager form of...

By JIM KENYON

More Upper Valley communities — big and small — could use a public meeting like the one that Hartland held last week.The topic was policing. How many cops, if any, does the town need? Can police serve as an effective deterrent to crime? Other than...

WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Selectboard unanimously appointed a new member at a meeting last week.Greg Fullerton replaces Joe Swanson, who left the board when he was appointed the town’s police chief. Swanson, the son of late town manager Phil Swanson,...