Vermont's newest commercial wind power project is starting to pay dividends to the town where it's located.

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Voters in Guildhall are weighing a Town Meeting Day ballot item that would expand their School Board from three to five members. At issue is whether the size of the board makes a difference in education policy in the small Essex County town.

Burlington's Progressive Party says it won't endorse a candidate in the upcoming mayoral race.

For over twenty years, voters in the Northeast Kingdom town of Concord have been wrangling over whether or not to close their high school. The question will be on the ballot again this year, and feelings are still running high-on both sides.

At a debate Thursday night in Burlington, the three candidates running for their next job to be mayor of Vermont's largest city talked about their first job and what they learned from it.

With a little more than three weeks to go before the Burlington mayoral election, the candidates are making their case for receiving a Progressive endorsement.

The local economy in Hartford depends heavily on the historic Quechee Bridge, which was ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene, and voters now have to decide whether to repair it, or build a bigger, longer one.

Smart meter technology allows customers to save electricity, and gives utilities the ability to respond quickly to power outages. But the wireless meters have also raised health and privacy concerns, and now voters in several southern Vermont towns will get a chance to weigh in at next month's town meetings.

Commentator Deborah Luskin lives in the Town of Newfane, where full participation in local government means attending and voting in separate meetings for the high school, the elementary school and the town.

Burlington's Progressive Party may be one of the most successful third parties in the country, but it has run into a rough patch lately. For the first time in decades, Progressives won't have a candidate for Burlington mayor.

More and more municipal governments have moved their business online, and now many of them are digitizing town records, such as tax maps.

Many cities and towns are putting the hot-button national issue of corporate personhood on their local agenda. By petition, residents across Vermont have requested that an article be placed on ballots asking voters whether they support overturning the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

Voters in Montpelier on Town Meeting Day next month are going to decide on a change to the city's charter.

On Town Meeting Day, voters in Montpelier will consider proposed tax changes designed to raise revenue. Montpelier's City Council wants to implement a 1 percent local sales tax as well as a 1 percent local rooms, meals and alcohol tax.

A Montpelier lawyer who served as chairman of the capital city's school board is running for mayor. John Hollar says he's a fiscal conservative, but liberal on social issues.

Democrats in Burlington have elected their nominee in the race for mayor of Vermont's largest city, choosing developer and airport commissioner Miro Weinberger to represent them in the general election in March.

Burlington Mayor Bob Kiss won't seek re-election. The Progressive mayor is stepping down in the midst of several ongoing controversies in the state's largest city, and he says he may try to return to the state Legislature.

Democrats in Burlington have scheduled another caucus on December 11 to choose their candidate for mayor, after the first caucus ended in a tie vote between two candidates.

Democrats in Burlington will decide Wednesday night when to resume their caucus to choose their candidate for mayor, after the first caucus ended in a tie vote between two candidates.