Letter to the editor: Thanks to all who helped with Cornwall breakfast

The Friends of Cornwall School would like to thank everyone who helped make our first Town Meeting Breakfast on Saturday, March 4th, a relative success.

Another Town Meeting Day has come and gone, accompanied by not only praise for a tradition handed down over multiple generations, but also questions about the viability and future of an institution which some would say has outlived its usefulness.

I always enjoy town meeting, but last Monday night at Ripton was truly special.

Vergennes voters on Tuesday decided two contested races for major city offices, while also confirming that Chris Bearor will be the city’s new mayor.

Here’s your town-by-town recap of Town Meeting 2023 action in Addison County.

Middlebury’s first in-person town meeting in three years drew roughly 100 residents on Monday. Those present agreeably dispatched all the business on their warning — including an almost $13 million fiscal year 2024 budget for Addison County’s shire town o … (read more)

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board will work with its member communities to fill four vacancies on the panel that failed to draw candidates — or enough write-in votes — to be filled on Town Meeting Day.

Addison County residents showed strong support for education on Tuesday, when all local school budgets passed, four out of five by large margins. 

Parking spaces at and around Lincoln’s Burnham Hall on Monday evening were about as full as the warning for that evening’s annual town meeting, held in person for the first time in three years.

In Lincoln, population about 1,300, a civic-minded group of about 70 residents decided most of the town’s business at Town Meeting, while also epitomizing the essence of Town Meeting through many comments. 

Addison Central School District voters on Tuesday filled five seats on the ACSD’s 13-member governing board, with four of those spots decided in hotly contested elections.

Here are the key takeaways from town meetings around the county. Find full results in Thursday’s paper.

Here’s what to expect at each of the town meetings in Addison County this week.

Bristol police and town officials conducted a public hearing on the Bristol Police District budget for fiscal year 2024 during Monday’s regular selectboard meeting at Holley Hall. 

Read this list to find out when and where your 2023 town meeting will be held.