On Town Meeting Day, voters weighed in on their top three favorite of five designs chosen from a larger pool submitted by community members.

Voters in St. Albans will have to go back to the polls to elect an alderman because a judge threw out the results from Town Meeting Day.

Newscast: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 5:50 p.m.

The vast majority of local school budgets were approved on Town Meeting Day. Officials say voters supported the budgets because school boards did a good job in explaining the need to increase spending this year.

Tropical Storm Irene devastation lingers in many of the Vermont communities it overwhelmed more than six months ago, and it influenced voters' decisions this week.

Voters from four southern Vermont towns have voted to disband their separate school boards and form the state's first Regional Education District, or RED. 

Town Meeting Day voters in North Bennington will decide whether to give their school board permission to close the village's graded school.

Across the state, many towns are now having discussions about the future of their schools after a 20-year decline in student enrollment.

Voters in Windsor will decide whether to approve a $1 million bond that would go towards repairing an aging dam.

Voters in Tinmouth turned out in force during Town Meeting Day balloting to decide how they vote to compromise between secret ballots and open floor votes.

Democrat Miro Weinberger talks about the race and how he's going to tackle Burlington Telecom and the city's finances.

Early exit poll results show female, conservative and older voters helped Mitt Romney win Vermont's Republican presidential primary.

Grand Isle has struggled to pass its school budget in past years, but they passed on the first try this year.

Voters in Eden and Lowell have overwhelmingly rejected the idea of adding a closed asbestos mine to the national list of Superfund hazardous waste sites. A Superfund designation would have put the property in line for federal cleanup money.

Voters in at least three dozen towns want Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to make clear that corporations aren't people.

Vermont turned out to be friendly territory for Mitt Romney, who spent four years as governor of neighboring Massachusetts.

A $2 million bond vote that stirred controversy in Castleton also created controversy on town ballots.  

Montpelier voters have rejected the idea of implementing a local tax on rooms, meals and sales. It appears voters followed the lead of the Capital City's business community, which campaigned heavily against the local option taxes.

The voters in Hartford opened their wallets last night, and went into debt to replace a bridge and a library destroyed by Tropical Storm Irene. They also approved a $4 million school bond.

Following Tropical Storm Irene, town budgets have been complicated by uncertainty over FEMA reimbursements and the costs of future repairs. But in some of those hard-hit communities, the mood on Town Meeting Day seemed buoyant.

Democrat Miro Weinberger has been elected the next mayor of Burlington, defeating Republican Kurt Wright and Independent Wanda Hines. Weinberger is Burlington's first Democratic mayor in more than 30 years.

For years, the Canadian border town of Franklin has opened its Town Meeting with a prayer. But with that tradition at the center of a lawsuit, the town acted with caution this year.

Governor Peter Shumlin made a tour of several town meetings. His first stop was in Waterbury, a town that's had a rocky relationship with him since the Tropical Storm Irene floods.

Vermonters turned out by the thousands today to decide local issues - and to help Republicans determine their presidential nominee. No great statewide trends emerged from town meetings this year, except for the traditional pride in self-government that emerges on the first Tuesday of March every year.

VPR's Jane Lindholm and Ross Sneyd wrap up the results of votes, and get your reaction to the issues debated and decided on Town Meeting Day.