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Avoid scandal and play hardball politics in the BDN’s town meeting game

Bangor Daily News 30 Apr 2026
And there’s no politics more local than at town meetings across Maine. Many of them happened in March, but it’s still town meeting season with more scheduled into June ... meeting.
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Manchester-by-the-Sea Town Meeting OKs zoning districts, senior housing rules

Gloucester Daily Times 30 Apr 2026
MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — Following Monday’s session when 19 of 29 articles, mostly “money” items, were all approved, Town Meeting wrapped up with deliberation of the 10 remaining articles Tuesday night ... .
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Town Meeting approves seven percent increase to water & sewer rates

Daily Times Chronicle 30 Apr 2026
WINCHESTER - Town Meeting again approved an increase to the town’s water & sewer rates, this time of seven percent. This actually represents a one percent decrease over increases to rates approved last year. Then, the Select Board asked Town ... .
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Killingly schools weigh budget options ahead of Monday's town meeting

The Day 30 Apr 2026
... annual town meeting, where residents can increase, decrease or approve the council’s budget proposal for the May 12 referendum ... The annual town meeting is scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m.
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Killingly schools weigh budget options ahead of Monday's Annual Town Meeting

The Day 30 Apr 2026
... Annual Town Meeting, where residents can increase, decrease or approve the council’s budget proposal for the May 12 referendum ... The annual town meeting is scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m.
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ADU bylaw, Transfer Station renaming proposal coming to Ashfield’s Town Meeting

Daily Hampshire Gazette 30 Apr 2026
... and a proposed bylaw outlining regulations for protected-use accessory dwelling units at Annual Town Meeting ... The full Annual Town Meeting warrant can be viewed at ashfield.org/DocumentCenter/View.
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Worthington voters to weigh in on budget and solar projects at annual Town Meeting on Saturday

Daily Hampshire Gazette 30 Apr 2026
WORTHINGTON — The town is facing a more than $30,000 structural deficit heading into Town Meeting Saturday morning, with an estimated $6.3 million budget anticipated for fiscal year 2027 ... Town Meeting.
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Essex to weigh 28 articles at Town Meeting

Gloucester Daily Times 29 Apr 2026
ESSEX — Annual Town Meeting next week will weigh 28 articles on its warrant, among them several planning and finance questions and two overrides of tax-limiting Proposition 2 ½ ... .
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Save our shelter stand-out planned ahead of Fairhaven Town Meeting

SouthCoast TODAY 29 Apr 2026
The future of the shelter will now be decided at the Annual Town Meeting on May 2, where community members will vote on its fate ... For more information on the Town Meeting, visit https.//fairhaven-ma.gov/town-meeting-information.
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Overrides to dominate Southampton Town Meeting on Saturday

Daily Hampshire Gazette 29 Apr 2026
SOUTHAMPTON — Residents will vote on a packed, 25-article warrant at Southampton’s annual Town Meeting this Saturday, including the first step to pass or reject a $1.9 million or $2.5 million Proposition 2½ override.
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Yarmouth will lose state library grant, after 'no' town meeting vote

Cape Cod Times 29 Apr 2026
Yarmouth voters again rejected funding for a new public library at town meeting Tuesday night, just short of a two-thirds majority needed to pass ... The 2024 town meeting approved $150,000 for the ...
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Fairhaven could kill tourism office and animal shelter at Town Meeting

SouthCoast TODAY 29 Apr 2026
FAIRHAVEN — Voters members will consider an approximately $63 million budget that includes a number of cuts, as well as a Proposition 2½ override that would restore those cuts at Town Meeting on May 2.
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Leverett Town Meeting to weigh trail funding, Field Library’s future

Greenfield Recorder 29 Apr 2026
LEVERETT — Voters at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting will decide whether to fund a new access path to town conservation land — a move that could end an ongoing legal dispute over a Shutesbury Road trailhead — and whether to keep the former Bradford M.
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