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By LIESEL NYGARD

HEATH — Having been two voters short of a quorum when the articles came up at Annual Town Meeting in May, residents will reconvene Monday to vote on regional agreement revisions that would change the school enrollment formula that is used to calculate...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Residents are likely in store for a long night on Monday, as the Special and Annual Town Meetings to be held at Town Hall have a combined 75 articles on their warrants involving key decisions.The warrant for the Special Town Meeting,...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Town Meeting voters gave their blessing to a $2.38 million budget for fiscal year 2025 on Tuesday, along with $1.77 million for the Gill-Montague Regional School District’s operating assessment and debt service.The town and education budgets...

By LIESEL NYGARD

WENDELL — Although the vote wasn’t unanimous Saturday, the majority of Annual Town Meeting attendees supported a switch from appointed to elected membership for Wendell’s Municipal Light Board, which is tasked with overseeing the town’s fiber-optic...

By CHRIS LARABEE

GILL — After handling the first half of Annual Town Meeting in May, residents are invited back on Tuesday, June 11, to consider the community’s financial articles, including a $2.38 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year.The 11-article meeting...

By DOMENIC POLI

WENDELL — The body tasked with overseeing Wendell’s fiber-optic network would switch from appointed to elected membership if voters adopt a particular warrant article at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting.One of the final items on the 31-article warrant...

By CHRIS LARABEE

LEYDEN — Following the last-minute discovery of a conflict with state law, voters at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting opted to table a bylaw change that would have allowed accessory dwelling units and two-family houses by right.In the run-up to the...

By LIESEL NYGARD

CONWAY — Voters approved a $7.05 million fiscal year 2025 budget in addition to 31 other articles at Annual Town Meeting on Saturday.However, an article that would have amended Conway’s bylaws to allow non-residents to be appointed as associate board...

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

COLRAIN — Annual Town Meeting voters will be asked to adopt a $1.9 million operating budget for fiscal year 2025, buy a police cruiser, save library statuary, and add a short-term rental provision and a Floodplain Overlay District to the zoning...

By LIESEL NYGARD

LEYDEN — Monday’s Annual Town Meeting will include discussions on changes to curb cuts and zoning bylaws, discontinuing a portion of Hunt Hill Road and a $2.1 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2025.Annual Town Meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at...

By CHRIS LARABEE

CONWAY — Rescinding $1.5 million in borrowing authority for road repairs, creating a Festival of the Hills town committee and several equipment purchases will be on the table for voters to consider at Annual Town Meeting.The meeting will be held on...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

BUCKLAND — Residents will vote whether to approve bylaws regulating short-term rentals, such as Airbnb or Vrbo properties, in the commercial and residential districts at this year’s Annual Town Meeting on May 4.If passed, the bylaws would establish a...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — Leverett voters are being asked to accept a series of road layouts and pursue permanent easements to accommodate a $2.71 million state project to rebuild a bridge over the Roaring Brook at a special Town Meeting on Tuesday.The session,...

By CHRIS LARABEE

SOUTH DEERFIELD – With no discussion on the article, voters at Monday’s special Town Meeting granted Deerfield borrowing authority for up to $5 million, if needed, to pay off existing and potential future road repairs following severe summer storms.In...

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — When annual Town Meeting convenes in June it will mark the first time in 35 years Christopher Woodcock hasn’t called the session to order.The lifelong Orange resident has opted not to run for another term as the town’s moderator, ending a...