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By DAVID BROOKS
Two towns will be testing ballot-counting machines at elections Tuesday, the latest step as the state decides how to replace the aging AccuVote machines.Hanover and Moultonborough, N.H., will use ballot-counting devices produced by Election Systems &...
By ROSE TERAMI
CHELSEA — Residents decided on two articles regarding voting logistics at a special Town Meeting on Thursday night, preserving traditional floor meetings for budget articles but moving other questions to the polls in the future.Chelsea’s shift away...
By ROSE TERAMI
CHELSEA — A special town meeting is scheduled for Thursday to decide whether or not future articles and budget items should be voted on by Australian ballot, rather than at a traditional floor meeting. Voter turnout at Chelsea’s March 1 Town Meeting...
By ROSE TERAMI
VERSHIRE — While voters here approved budgets and elected officers with little fuss, several smaller expenses on the Town Meeting warning generated substantial debate over the town’s priorities.That debate included a rejection of a proposed contract...
By ROSE TERAMI
TUNBRIDGE — The ox-pulling arena on the Tunbridge fairgrounds shaded around 100 voters during a tradition-filled and spirited Town Meeting on Saturday. Following announcements promoting the Friends of the Library raffle and pie bake sale, town...
Article of Note: Article 23: “Shall the voters of the Town appropriate $63,436 for Vershire Fire & Rescue for the fiscal year 2022-23?”The proposed Vershire Fire & Rescue budget is up nearly $24,000 over the prior year, which represents the largest...
By NORA DOYLE-BURR
VERSHIRE — After two decades of searching for a way to replace the town garage, Vershire may be poised to do just that should voters approve a $1.53 million bond in a ballot vote next month.The Selectboard unanimously approved sending the question to...
By ROSE TERAMI
CORINTH — Under a tent and in the parking lot behind Cookville Town Hall, all 18 articles on Corinth’s Town Meeting warning passed with relative ease on Tuesday. The town moderator, Gary Apfel, led around 60 attendees in the pledge of allegiance...
Article of Note: Article 5: “To hear a report on and discuss how best to spend the American Rescue Plan Act money the town will receive ($425,970).”The use of town ARPA funds to be addressed by Article 5 on the warning is open-ended and will likely...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — For the second time in four years, voters defeated an appropriation for a new recreation center.Needing a 60% majority, the article failed to reach a simple majority, with a vote of 652-642.The appropriation, this time for $8.65 million, was...
By ALEX HANSON
CROYDON — Nearly 60% of Croydon’s registered voters filled the vast dining hall at Camp Coniston to standing-room-only capacity on Saturday and reinstated the small town’s $1.7 million school budget.The vote count was 377-2, and its announcement by...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — As voters prepare to decide the fate of a $8.65 million appropriation for a new community center, town officials feel confident they will raise enough in donations, grants and other sources needed to fully fund the project should the article...
By DARREN MARCY
HANOVER — Voters here will head to Town Meeting on Tuesday to tackle zoning amendments along with a 5.5% increase to the municipal budget.The zoning proposals are laid out in 10 articles and are all related to housing issues. Four of the 10 articles...
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
ENFIELD — Residents voted to preserve traditional Town Meeting and expand the Selectboard from three to five members during a busy, yet chilly, session outdoors at Huse Park on Saturday.Voters also approved two multimillion-dollar bonds to renovate...
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
ENFIELD — Voters will consider increasing the number of seats on the town’s Selectboard from three to five at this year’s Town Meeting.The petitioned article, which was proposed by Tracy Young, will go before voters during April 30’s floor portion of...
By DARREN MARCY
CROYDON — A supervisor of the town voter checklist said Friday she has resigned from her position after a decision by state officials that could make things easier for a push to add money back to the town’s 2022-23 school budget.Cathy Peschke said she...
By ROSE TERAMI
In the wake of Town Meeting season, several Upper Valley communities — including Bethel, Royalton, Strafford, Bridgewater and the Rivendell district towns — find themselves with vacant seats on school boards. For some schools, this is not an unusual...
By PATRICK O’GRADY
NEWPORT — Voters will have the opportunity to debate and amend the Newport Town Meeting warrant at Tuesday’s deliberative session beginning at 6 p.m. in the Newport High School gymnasium, ahead of voting on May 10.The warrant includes a $7 million...
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
ENFIELD — At the end of this month, residents will decide whether to do away with the town’s traditional floor meeting and handle all Town Meeting business under what’s known as SB 2 voting, which would return the town to a meeting format it did away...
By DARREN MARCY
CROYDON — Residents outraged after the 2022-23 school budget was slashed by more than half at Town Meeting earlier this month will get a chance to restore the money after the School Board on Tuesday scheduled another budget vote at 9 a.m. on May 7.The...
ORFORD — Voters in the towns of Fairlee, Orford and West Fairlee passed all articles on the Rivendell Interstate School District warrant.The $13.32 million budget was passed by a vote of 368 to 261. Additionally, voters approved $120,000 to repair the...
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