Isle La Motte residents voted overwhelmingly Saturday to use one-hundred-thousand-dollars that had been paid as restitution by former Town Clerk and Treasurer Suzanne LaBombard to cut the property tax rate.

On Town Meeting Day, voters in Wilmington will attempt to settle the fate of a decorative structure that's become a flash point in town. It's called the "pergola."  And some people in Wilmington want to get rid of it.

The Northeast Kingdom town of Lowell is gearing up for a big Town Meeting vote on Tuesday.

A group of Addison County towns will vote on Town Meeting Day whether to merge their school boards and possibly save money. Voters considered and killed the idea five years ago. But supporters say, with increasing costs and declining programming, this might be the year to try again.

Besides city budgets, voters in Rutland will also decide the fate of several bond initiatives at town meeting next week. One bond would fix the library and another, more costly one, would move and improve the city's recreation department.  Local voters will also decide whether to impose term limits on local leaders. 

On Town Meeting Day next week, voters in Rutland will have a chance to weigh in on their city's $17 million budget. 

A recent change in Vermont law allows towns that currently have school choice to designate a public school for their students.

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 future of instant run off voting in Burlington will be decided on Town Meeting Day when voters address whether it should be repealed.

VPR's Jane Lindholm gets an update on the upcoming vote for a wind project in Lowell from Burlington Free Press environmental reporter Candace Page.

The Springfield School District is planning to ask voters for permission to get rid of four school properties in the town.

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.

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.

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.