Residents of the northern Vermont town of Lowell will soon decide whether to endorse what would become
the state’s largest wind energy project to date.
A
majority of school boards have proposed budgets that wouldn’t increase spending
above this year’s levels. The
Douglas administration says that’s good news, but there’s concern
that property tax rates might still increase significantly in many towns.
The town of Rockingham and the village of Bellows Falls have tabled a plan to merge. The two boards held a special meeting on Tuesday to
vote on the merger and plan for a Town Meeting Day vote on the proposal.
Officials in Rockingham and its village of Bellows Falls have agreed to
bring a long-debated merger to a vote on town meeting day. In order to move the merger forward, they’ve
left a few sticking points to be settled, if the two entities become one.