ADDISON COUNTY — Due to a new law, the COVID-19 pandemic looks like it will claim another victim in 2021 — the long-held tradition of residents gathering at annual meetings and discussing business, including in many towns debating and possibly amending town budgets and other articles. Some Addison County towns already decide budgets by up-and-down Australian ballot voting, including Addison, Panton and Salisbury, and in Vergennes the city council sets spending. Still, in many towns, selectboards propose bud … (read more)
