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Article of note: A petitioned warrant article would urge the Legislature and governor to increase state funding for public education “to fulfill the State’s responsibility of providing an adequate education fairly funded for every student across the state.”

Articles of note: One warrant article asks whether voters want to add a definition of short-term rental to the zoning ordinance. Another zoning amendment would allow lighting on the Sally Shaw Veitch Track and Field at Kelsey Athletic Campus, Colby-Sawyer College. Voters also will consider a $955,000 bond to continue planning for a new police facility on Seamans Road. Another article would call on state elected officials to “uphold their duty to fiscal responsibility by rejecting any expansion of taxpayer funding for private education until we have full accountability.”

Contested races: There are no contested School Board races.

Articles of note: A proposed zoning warrant amendment would exclude propane and natural gas tanks from a provision that outlaws underground fuel storage tanks. A petitioned warrant article asks whether voters support having two sessions for town meeting, one for ballot voting for officers and the other at a date set by the Selectboard for other business.

Contested races: There are two people running for one three-year term on the School Board representing New London: James MacKenna and Elizabeth Parrish Gunby.

Article of note: A petitioned school article asks whether voters support a budget cap, requiring that the School Board keep the budget below $20,323 per pupil. An article on the town warrant asks whether the town should become an SB2, allowing ballot voting on all town issues on the second Tuesday of March. A petitioned town article asks whether the town should adopt a town manager form of government.

Article of note: A petitioned article seeks to call on elected officials to “uphold their duty of fiscal responsibility by rejecting any expansion of taxpayer funding for private education until we have full accountability, transparency, and a sustainable funding plan.”

Article of note: A warrant article asks whether voters supporting changing the police chief position from elected to appointed by the Selectboard, effective March 10, 2026.

Article of note: A petitioned warrant article asks voters whether they support adopting SB 2 to allow ballot voting on all town issues on the second Tuesday in March. One zoning amendment would reduce the minimum lot size in the Community Business District to a quarter acre; another would change the requirements for accessory dwelling units; and another would change parking requirements. One article asks whether voters support establishing a new default community power rate and another seeks to establish a Community Power Energy Capital Reserve Fund.

Article of note: One article asks for an additional $8,000 to raise the annual salary for the town clerk tax collector position.

Articles of note: One article on the town warrant asks if voters support a one-year subdivision moratorium in the rural district while the town upgrades its master plan. Another town article asks whether the town will amend the rural zoning ordinance to require five acres for a single-family home, up from the current 3.5 acres. Another zoning amendment would regulate cell towers; another would disallow mobile home parks in rural residential areas; and another would alter the accessory dwelling unit ordinance. A school article would see if the district will tuition fourth grade students to area schools with which the district has tuition agreements. Another school article would offer preschool services at the Croydon Village School for which families would pay tuition; free or reduced rates would be available to families who qualify for free or reduced price school meals.

Contested race: Three people are running for two three-year terms on the School Board: Loren Howard, William Madden and Emily Sandblade.

Article of note: One petitioned town article, which is not recommended by the Selectboard, asks whether voters support reducing the Selectboard to three members. Another article asks whether voters support discontinuing a portion of George Moulton Way. A school article asks for $50,000 to hire a contractor to help the central office study the feasibility and suitability of the withdrawal of one or more pre-existing districts from the cooperative district.

Articles of note: One article seeks to authorize the sale of a town-owned gravel pit on Route 118. Another article would allow the Selectboard to appoint the fire chief and firefighters, after recommendations from the chief. Another article asks whether voters would like the town to adopt a community power electric aggregation plan.

Article of note: One article would change the way voters in the four member towns of Fairlee, Orford, Vershire and West Fairlee decide budgets, moving to a ballot vote with polls open in each town’s polling place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Articles of note: Voters will be asked to weigh in on three zoning amendments: One would allow home-based child care centers in all zoning districts; another would allow a child care agency to operate as a principal use by special exception; and the third would bring the town’s off-street parking requirements for residential developments into compliance with state law, which prevents towns from requiring more than 1.5 off-street parking spaces for studio and one-bedroom units under 1,000-square-feet that are deemed to be workforce housing. Another article asks whether voters would like to adopt the Cornish Community Power plan. A petitioned article asks voters whether they would like to rescind a 2023 vote to accept the former Cornish general store as a new library. Another petitioned article seeks to alter the Cornish Conservation Commission bylaws by removing wording “which only serves to promote an elitist clique among the membership.”

Contested races: Two people are vying for one two-year term representing Ward 2 on the City Council: incumbent Devin Wilkie and Paul Roberts. Three people are vying for one at-large Council seat: Carline Roberge, Laurel Stavis and Lori Key. Unopposed are: incumbent Douglas Whittlesey, Ward I, and Nicole Ford Burley, Ward III. Five people are vying for three, three-year terms on the Lebanon School Board: Kaitlyn Ramos, Travis Talbert, Joseph Castelot, Laila Volle and Kerry O’Hara. Talbert, however, said in an email that he is dropping out to start a food truck business instead. Ramos told the Upper Valley Business Alliance that she also was dropping out.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

LEBANON — Even as the New Hampshire Legislature attempts to dial back municipalities’ control over zoning, several Upper Valley communities will vote on changes aimed at both spurring and slowing development in their municipalities this Town Meeting.

By ALEX HANSON

As the fifth anniversary of the start of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown approaches, ongoing debates about town and school district governance suggest that the seismic event is still reverberating.

By EMMA ROTH-WELLS

CANAAN — After over a year of part-time interim chiefs, the fire department and emergency medical services are hoping that a Town Meeting warrant article will bring stability in leadership.