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Whitingham voters make quick work of 30 warned articles

WHITINGHAM—Voters were in an agreeable mood at Town Meeting on Tuesday, as they breezed through 30 warned articles in less than two hours.
During the meeting in the gymnasium at Twin Valley Middle High School, Whitingham voters greeted some new town officials in key roles, heard a quick...

Cemetery, paving inspire discussion at Dover’s pre-Town Meeting

DOVER - As is tradition in Dover, voters gathered for the town’s annual “pre-Town Meeting” on Tuesday evening, one week out from Town Meeting Day, March 3. Although voters engaged in lively discussion of the town’s 23-article warning, no article proved to be particularly contentious. Articles...

Halifax voters will decide on a proposed 3.6% increase in per-pupil spending

HALIFAX – Residents gathered in person and online on Tuesday evening to ask school and town officials about articles they will be asked to vote on at next week’s Town Meeting. Voters will be asked to approve a $2,636,178 school budget for the coming school year, representing a per-pupil cost of $13...

Twin Valley School Board member Jason Hartnett at Wednesday evening's meeting

Five attend TVSD annual meeting/budget session

WILMINGTON—Twin Valley School District held its annual meeting and informational meeting on Tuesday, February 18. Just five voters were in attendance.
The meeting was held in the recently-reopened Twin Valley Elementary School gymnasium. The gymnasium had been closed for nearly two years,...

Whitingham preps voters for annual Town Meeting

WHITINGHAM—Audience members, gripping copies of the 171st annual report - containing line items that they had highlighted in yellow and green - gathered in the Whitingham Municipal Center to interrogate the selectboard about the town budget, on Wednesday, February 18.
Approximately 12...

Food drive seeks in-kind donations and cash to help kids and adults

WILMINGTON- A Wilmington merchant is heading a plan to collect food and cash for children and adults in the Deerfield Valley who may lack sustained access to healthy food. David Petrie, owner of Farmhouse Market on Route 100 North, is hoping to collect 2,000 items of donated food during the food...

Chimney Hill Owners Assocation is seeking a town-mandated short-term rental registry.

Wilmington takes owners at their word for vacation rental permits

Chimney Hill board urges town to crack down on false claims of occupancy, citing strain on sewage and potential fire hazards
WILMINGTON—Owners of dozens of rental homes in the Chimney Hill complex are claiming their properties sleep more people than their septic systems can...

Wilmington restores water service

Editor's note: The boil water notice has been rescinded as of Monday, March 2. WILMINGTON—Wilmington officials restored water to about 26 buildings late Tuesday after a two-day shutoff because of a water main leak. The leak has been repaired, but the town left a ‘boil-water...

Readsboro to decide fate of its school

READSBORO—In one of two towns in the Deerfield Valley that hold their annual Town Meeting on the Monday evening before the first Tuesday of March, voters will gather in the Readsboro Central School auditorium at 6 pm on Monday, March 2, for a school district informational meeting followed by Town...

Wilmington Selectboard members discussed a state experiment that would let smaller towns more easily navigate contracting for public safety services with the Windham County Sheriff’s Office. Via Facebook.com

Bill would allow small towns to choose law enforcement by sheriff’s office

WILMINGTON— Wilmington’s selectboard held a special meeting Monday evening to discuss whether state lawmakers should vote for Senate bill S.255, which would allow a group of Windham County towns that don’t currently have their own police force to obtain collective law-enforcement services from the...