Few races on 5-town area ballots

Most voters in the 5-town area won’t see any contested races for seats on their local school and selectboards this Town Meeting Day.

Middlebury voters on Town Meeting Day will decide a three-person race for two three-year seats on the town selectboard.

Residents will decide whether to use electronic voting at Town Meeting Day, and whether the annual meeting should be held on the Saturday preceding the first Tuesday in March.

Lincoln residents will vote on whether Town Meeting should be held on the Saturday prior to the first Tuesday in March, and whether to use an electronic voting system.

Panton will hold a special election on Thursday, May 15, to fill out the newly expanded selectboard that residents voted in favor of on Town Meeting Day. It will now be five members rather than the previous three.

Unlike the divisive national political scene which gives me a stomachache and makes it hard for me to speak with my neighbor and another close friend, the Middlebury town meeting was like a gooey chocolate brownie to a sugar addict.

Addison Central School District voters on Tuesday decided a five-person race for three of Middlebury’s seven seats on the ACSD board, choosing Jess Venable-Novak, Ron Makleff and incumbent Steve Orzech to fill those three-year spots.

Middlebury residents on Tuesday voted overwhelming in favor of three public works-related bond proposals, the centerpiece of which was a proposed $49.5 million upgrade of the town’s 24-year-old wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) at 243 Industrial Ave.

Bristol voters could soon weigh in again on who they’d like to fill an open seat on the Lawrence Memorial Library Board of Trustees after a contested race for two, two-year terms on the board ended in a tie for second place on Town Meeting Day.

Buoyed by good news on projected education property tax rates, a majority of Addison County residents supported their local school budgets on Town Meeting Day.

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District on Town Meeting Day decisively approved a $34,894,443 fiscal year 2026 budget. They voted in favor of the spending plan, 1,280-596.

Residents in the five Addison Northwest School District communities on Tuesday solidly backed a $27.653 million budget proposal to provide education for students in the coming school year.

There were several articles on Lincoln’s town meeting warning that generated lively discussion at Monday’s annual gathering in Burnham Hall. But one in particular seemed to get at the heart of the town meeting tradition and why Vermonters continue to prac … (read more)

Town officials pulled the plug on live-streaming Saturday’s town meeting after someone hacked the site and X-rated images appeared as a legislator was addressing the crowd.

About halfway through Lincoln’s town meeting Monday night, the gathering recessed to hold the Lincoln School District annual meeting.