Duxbury: Mud season at the polls as voters pass the budget, elect officers
Duxbury residents navigated worsening muddy roads on Tuesday to head to the polls where the town’s drive-through election area outside of the town highway garage and offices had melted into rutted mud with standing puddles.
Waterbury decides select board race, approves budget and new fire truck
Waterbury voters approved a $6.3 million town budget, a $380,000 new fire truck and filled three seats on the town select board on Town Meeting Day.
Voters reject $50.8 million Harwood budget, support maintenance funding
Voters in the Harwood Unified Union School District voted Tuesday to send school leaders back to the drawing board on a school budget for 2024-25, but they also told them to stick with investing in school building maintenance.
Part 1: Select Board candidates share their vision for Waterbury
Town Meeting Day is Tuesday, March 5, and local voters will decide one contested race on the ballot in which three candidates are vying for two one-year positions on the Waterbury Select Board.
Part 2: Unopposed, Clapp eyes a three-year Select Board term
The spot on the Town Meeting Day ballot for a three-year Waterbury Select Board seat has just one candidate. Unopposed is Roger Clapp, who joined the board in 2022.
Duxbury Town Meeting preview
Duxbury is preparing for its fourth drive-through Town Meeting. Voting will be held on Tuesday, March 5, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. outside at the town offices and highway garage on Rt. 100. Voters can attend or watch an informational meeting and ask questions about ballot items tonight, Feb. 26.
Waterbury Town Meeting preview: in person & on the ballots
Voters across Vermont will have a full slate of business to decide on Town Meeting Day next Tuesday, March 5. Waterbury holds an in-person town meeting starting at 9 a.m. in the gym at Brookside Primary School and voting election ballots 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the school.
Waterbury Select Board candidate survey 2024
Waterbury Roundabout caught up with the five candidates for Waterbury Select Board. We asked them to tell voters a little about themselves and share their thoughts on some of the top issues they are likely to encounter if elected. Here are their answers.
One school budget – three weeks – three price tags
Harwood’s proposed $50.8 million budget for the 2024-25 school year in the past three weeks has had three different estimated price tags for taxpayers – without the budget changing a penny.
School board on budget: ‘Let the voters decide’
Taxpayers in the Harwood Unified Union School District could expect to see the school portion of their property tax bills go up by 30% to 40% later this year if they approve the $50.8 million school budget on the Town Meeting Day ballot.
Waterbury gets a select board race, but crickets on school board election
Monday was the deadline across Vermont for candidates running for office on Town Meeting Day and while Waterbury has a race for Select Board, several spots on the ballot will be blank including two openings on the Harwood school board.
Wanted: Candidates for local office by Jan. 29
The deadline to file to run for local office on Town Meeting Day in March is quickly approaching and multiple positions still need candidates.