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Most Town Meeting budgets pass

DEERFIELD VALLEY- Few budgets failed in valley towns this year and, for the most part, incumbents who were seeking another term were elected without opposition.
Halifax
Although Halifax’s Town Meeting was otherwise uneventful, witnesses said the meeting...

Patrick Lagrange

Lagrange joins Dover board, transfer station fees to go up

DOVER- Selectboard members welcomed new board member Patrick Lagrange at a special reorganizational meeting on Wednesday, March 5.
Lagrange, who also chairs the town’s planning commission and the selectboard’s water task force, was elected by Australian ballot a day earlier to fill the...

Emily Carris-Duncan speaking to Town Meeting voters in Whitingham

Rep says town has “best road crew” in Vermont

WHITINGHAM- When moderator Leon Corse invited Rep. Emily Carris-Duncan to speak to the crowd at Town Meeting on Tuesday, March 4,, he said it was a great pleasure, for the first time in his 40-year tenure, to be introducing a representative who was a Whitingham resident.
Carris-Duncan gave...

Devin Logan, left, and Caroline Claire ski powder snow in a scene from “Kindred.” The new film will be shown at Mount Snow’s Carinthia Base Lodge on Saturday.

Olympians return to valley for documentary screening

DOVER - Olympic silver medalist Devin Logan and two-time Olympian Caroline Claire will return to the valley this weekend for a screening of a documentary of which they are the subjects. The screening will be held at Mount Snow.
“Kindred” tells the story of the friendship between Logan and...

Voters turn down plan for local option tax

WHITINGHAM- Town Meeting voters passed every spending request on their 34-article warning, but overwhelmingly rejected two articles to create a 1% local option tax, and a fund from which to disburse the proceeds.
The discussion came at the end of the meeting, after lunch and after some...

Readsboro school and town moderator Bill Lequier.

$1.8 million Readsboro school budget passed by a meager 11 votes

READSBORO- Voters passed the school district’s proposed $1,840,509 fiscal year 2026 budget by just 11 votes in Australian balloting Tuesday, following discussion at the school board’s budget informational meeting Monday evening.
Voters also reelected Helyn Strom Henriksen to another term...

Voters discuss, reject plan to pull social services funds

WILMINGTON- Voters were ready to get down to business at Tuesday’s Town Meeting, as they sped through 21 articles and finished in time for lunch. In all, total expenditures of $7,386,998 for the fiscal year were approved. Included in those numbers were capital reserve funds for future repairs...

Readsboro passes all spending articles

READSBORO- Town Meeting voters passed every article on their 14-article warning Monday evening, and voters returned incumbents to most town offices in Australian balloting on Tuesday.
Selectboard chair Ray Eilers eked out a victory over write-in challenger Bart Howes, with 56 votes to...

Moderator Richard Werner, center, address voters at Dover’s Town Meeting on Tuesday. Lauren Harkawik

Voters approve all articles, throw the MOOver some extra MOOlah

DOVER - In a packed town hall on Tuesday, voters approved all warned articles on the town’s annual Town Meeting warning, including a raise for the town’s selectboard. Voters amended an appropriation request from Southeast Vermont Transit, also known as the MOOver, to give the organization more...

Rep. Laura Sibilia at Dover’s Town Meeting. Lauren Harkawik

Voters raise concerns to state representative

DOVER - Rep. Laura Sibilia joined voters at Town Meeting on Tuesday, where she updated gathered constituents about the major issues facing the Legislature this year, including a proposal from Gov. Phil Scott to drastically alter the way education is structured and administered in the state. ...