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By ASHLEY SAARI

The Mascenic School District will start full-day kindergarten in the fall after receiving supportive votes from both Greenville and New Ipswich polls on Tuesday.Mascenic currently only provides a half-day schedule for kindergarten. The proposal for...

By ASHLEY SAARI

New Ipswich voters passed the entirety of the proposed warrant Tuesday, including the budget, which was one of the votes that was most split, with 513 in support, and 356 against.With its passage, the budget is now set at $3.25 million. Had it failed,...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Selectman Bob Hamilton was re-elected to his position for the next three years, with 600 votes. Though Hamilton was running unopposed, resident Craig Clark garnered a total of 24 write-in votes.In the only contested race of the day, Marcia...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Incumbent Timothy Leak will return to his seat on the Mason School Board this year, joined by Nathaniel Choquette, who will be taking the seat left vacant by Bradley Gilbert, who did not run for re-election.Leak and Choquette were up for the two open...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Rindge voters opposed the Jaffrey-Rindge School District budget in a narrow vote on Tuesday, but stronger support in Jaffrey resulted in the budget’s ultimate passing, with 54.5 percent approval rating – the narrowest vote of the day for the...

By JOSH LACAILLADE

A new site for the Highway Department in Temple has been approved. According to former Temple Road Agent Tim Fiske, a new Highway Department building will cost a minimum of $700,000 to build and it will be accessible via Route 45. Fiske said building...

By ORIANA CAMARA

Mason Town Meeting approved all 19 articles before it Saturday morning, including making changes to the budget due to last week’s snowstorm.An amendment increased the emergency management budget from $1,500 to $31,500 to account for storm cleanup....

By KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS

The fierce snowstorm last week that dumped 30 inches in Lyndeborough postponed Tuesday’s election, but Town Meeting went off Saturday morning at Citizens’ Hall with about 60 residents in attendance.All the warrant articles passed, including a 38-6...

By SARAH HIBBARD PYLE

“Be it resolved that Francestown has the best road crew in the State of New Hampshire.” That was the opening remark of Town Moderator Paul Lawrence at the 2023 Francestown Town Meeting. With the meeting only a few days after more than two feet of snow...

By OLIVIA BELANGER

It was standing room only at Hancock’s annual Town Meeting Saturday, with voters eager to discuss the proposed community power plan, which a majority of them approved.The roughly four-hour meeting at the Hancock Meetinghouse garnered 164 of the town’s...

By BEN CONANT

The lights in the Greenfield Meeting House dimmed and flickered as former Selectman Bob Marshall stood to speak, drawing a murmur from the 60 or so gathered townspeople, most of whom had experienced a power outage at their own houses during the past...

By BILL FONDA

Selectman Douglas Reardon said American Legion Post 13 brought a petition article seeking Keno games in Greenville to Saturday’s Town Meeting at the Mascenic Education Center as a way to raise money.“It’s greatly needed there to put people in seats,”...

By ROWAN WILSON

All warrant articles passed at Dublin’s Town Meeting Saturday, including having the Select Board explore opting into Cheshire County’s community power plan and an operating budget of approximately $2.47 million, a 6.1 percent increase over the current...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Wilton voters agreed to a $200,000 bond to purchase upgraded generators for the town’s sewer stations, in a unanimous 71-0 ballot vote to kick off Town Meeting on Thursday, where all articles passed.Select Board Chair Kermit Williams explained the...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Jaffrey is set to move forward with community power, after voters during Saturday’s Town Meeting were unanimously in favor.Selectman Kevin Chamberlain, who headed Jaffrey’s Community Power Committee, explained that all residents who currently receive...

AntrimTown/School District Elections: Tuesday, March 28, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Town Office. Town Meeting: Wednesday, March 29, 7 p.m. Town Hall. Click here for warrant information.Bennington Town/School District Elections, SB2 Voting: Tuesday, March 28, 8...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Wilton-Lyndeborough residents added $50,000 to the school district budget for administrative staffing for the district’s two lower-grade schools during the District Meeting on Saturday, along with agreeing to repair the district’s tennis courts.The...

By ASHLEY SAARI and ROWAN WILSON

This year, voters in several towns have the option to adopt the concept of community power, which is aimed at pooling customers’ collective buying power to negotiate the best available electricity rates while also giving individuals more options for...

By BILL FONDA

The name “SB2” comes from the bill that created it, Senate Bill 2 in 1995, and it became the official name for the ballot referendum form of government in 2000.Under SB2, Town Meeting is done over two sessions. The first is the deliberative session,...

By ROWAN WILSON

Unlike a traditional Town Meeting, in which voters discuss and make changes to the warrant at the meeting itself, deliberative sessions give voters in SB2 towns and school districts the ability to discuss, amend and approve the proposed warrant before...

By ASHLEY SAARI

Often the largest item on any town or school district’s warrant is the budget. It covers costs for all town departments, including the emergency services like police, fire and ambulance, as well as maintaining town infrastructure.How towns and school...