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CROYDON — Angi Beaulieu handily defeated Jody Underwood for a three-year term on the School Board.Beaulieu received 229 votes to Underwood’s 36. Edward Spiker (142 votes) bested Ryan Ball (64 votes) and Ryan Shackett (46 votes) for a one-year term on...

DORCHESTER — Melissa Howard won an uncontested three-year term on the Selectboard in ballot voting on Tuesday.  Elected officials:Number of voters: 39Number on checklist: 272Selectboard: Melissa HowardModerator: Roger FayTown Clerk/Tax Collector:...

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ENFIELD — Voters reelected Selectboard chairman John Kluge and elected Tracy Young to three-year terms on the Selectboard.Kluge (258 votes) and Young (226 votes) defeated Douglas Smith, who received 191 votes.Alice Kennedy won an uncontested race for...

GRAFTON — In Town Meeting Day ballot voting, voters rejected, 182-175, a petitioned article, not supported by the Selectboard or Budget Committee, that would have appropriated $210,000 for the first phase of a new library at 2 Library Road.Voters also...

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HAVERHILL — In Town Meeting Day ballot voting, Haverhill voters elected town and school officers.Joseph Longacre and Phil Blanchard were the top vote-getters in a five-way contest for two open seats with three-year terms on the Selectboard, with 408...

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 City Hall to determine the victor of a tied election result for the School Board between Jessica...

WEST CANAAN — Mascoma Valley voters approved all articles on the Mascoma Valley Regional School District ballot.Every town in the district — Canaan, Enfield, Dorchester, Grafton and Orange — voted in favor of the $30.5 million operating budget, a new...

NEWPORT — Voters elected school officials in uncontested races and approved the Newport School District’s proposed budget in ballot voting on Tuesday.Timothy Beard was elected to a three-year seat on the School Board and Jenna Darling was elected to 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 meeting on Wednesday, voters approved all articles including a municipal operating budget of $276,000, as well...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ORFORD — For 168 years, the Orford Congregational Church has ministered to the needs of the community.Now the Orford community is being asked to minister to the needs of the church.Voters at Town Meeting on Tuesday approved — excluding a solitary...

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 uncontested race on the school side, Vernon Jones earned a three-year term on the School Board with 84...

PLAINFIELD — In uncontested races in Tuesday’s ballot voting, Plainfield voters elected town and school officers.With 96 votes, Christian Forman earned a three-year seat on the School Board and Ron. C. Eberhardt, with 93 votes, earned a three-year...

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, and the recreation director 377 to 417. Voters also declined, at the Selectboard’s recommendation, to...

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 Kelly Simpson, who earned 23 votes; Shaylor Duranleau, 31; Adam Ferland Sr., 15; and Debra Leahy, 13, for...

By FRANCES MIZE

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 ballot boxes with mostly “no” votes.The station has been housed in Whipple Hall since 1918. The town’s...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

ENFIELD — The Conservation Commission will ask voters to create a town forest using 100 acres of town-owned land Saturday in a petitioned warrant article at Enfield Town Meeting.The land, located on Methodist Hill Road in the East side of town, will...

By FRANCES MIZE

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 voters who were thinking ahead. On Monday, Cornish Town Clerk Paula Harthan handed out almost 90 absentee...

By JIM KENYON

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 should keep the library where it’s been for 113 years or move its contents across Route 120 to the...

HAVERHILL — The Election Law Unit of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office is serving a subpoena to a Manchester-based printer responsible for a political mailing that went to Haverhill voters, according to a Tuesday news release.The subpoena is...

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WEST LEBANON — Several Upper Valley towns have postponed Town Meeting voting due to an expected winter storm.Charlestown postponed its Town Meeting voting until Tuesday, March 28, according to a Monday email to residents. Voting had previously been...