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Vermont Town Meeting Day: 41 Communities to Vote on Retail Cannabis Operations
About 40 Vermont communities will be voting Tuesday on Town Meeting Day whether to allow retail marijuana operations within their borders, according to the Vermont League of Cities and Towns. The Vermont Legislature legalized the sale of recreational marijuana starting this year but cities and towns have to vote whether to allow sales in their communities. Click here for everything…
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Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections in 2 Vermont Cities
Noncitizens will be allowed to vote in local elections in two Vermont cities — Winooski and Montpelier — on Tuesday during the state’s annual Town Meeting day. In Winooski, a city of about 7,300 that is home to immigrants from around the world, 37 noncitizens had registered to vote by early Monday, according to the city clerk. Same-day voter registration…
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Town Meeting Day, a Vt. Tradition, Sees Major Changes During Pandemic
Town Meeting Day in Vermont will look quite different this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vermonters know the first Tuesday in March is Town Meeting Day, but in Johnson and other communities statewide, it doesn’t quite feel like it. “It’s really different,” observed Eric Osgood, the chair of the Johnson Selectboard, referring to how there won’t be a...
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Pandemic Changes Vermont Town Hall Meetings and Voting
Due to the pandemic, town hall meetings in Vermont look different this year.
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Kristine Lott Elected as Vermont's 1st Female Mayor
A Vermont city has elected a woman to serve as mayor for the first time. Thirty-three-year-old Kristine Lott was elected mayor of Winooski on Town Meeting Day. MyNBC5 reports Lott beat Eric Covey by 650-478 votes.
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Vt. Communities Consider Plastic Bag Bans
Questions about whether to prohibit the use of plastic bags from stores and restaurants were on Town Meeting Day ballots in a handful of Vermont communities — including Middlebury, Manchester and Burlington. The issue came up in the form of advisory questions that would require further action from local governments before any limits would be enacted. Burlington’s Town Meeting Day...
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Bag Bans Debated in Vt. Communities
On Town Meeting Day in Vermont, voters hashed out issues like whether to ban plastic bags at stores and restaurants.
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Identity Crisis? Vt. Community Mulls Name Change
Tuesday is Town Meeting Day in Vermont — when cities and towns decide on issues such as electing their local select board members or whether their community should purchase a new snow plow. In one Lamoille County community, the town’s name is on the ballot — after some say it has something of an identity crisis.
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Vt. Community Considers Changing Name
On Town Meeting Day in Vermont, voters in Morristown, Vermont, will consider changing their community’s name.
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Vt. Town Has ‘No Confidence' in President Trump
A small Vermont town said Tuesday that it has no confidence in the administration of President Donald J. Trump. The vote in Johnson came during the more than 200-year-old tradition of Town Meeting Day in Vermont, which usually focuses on local matters — not national ones. “I have no confidence in Trump,” Johnson voter Jeremy Baker said from the floor…
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Sanders' Stepdaughter Carina Driscoll on Ballot for Mayor of Vermont City
Voters are set to decide whether to elect Bernie Sanders’ stepdaughter as mayor of Vermont’s largest city, where the independent senator got his political start.
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Vt. Communities Weigh in on Climate Change
At least 36 cities and towns in Vermont will answer an advisory question on Town Meeting Day pertaining to climate change.
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Vermont Voters to Decide on Basing of Military Jets
On Vermont’s Town Meeting Day, voters in Burlington will be asked whether the city should request a cancellation of the basing of a fleet of military jets, which is scheduled to arrive in the Champlain Valley.
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Voting Misstep Means New Election in President Coolidge's Hometown
Vermont does not allow candidates who are on the ballot to also serve as polling place officials
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Vermont Town Weighs Impeachment of President Donald Trump
A small Vermont town passed an advisory resolution calling on Congress to look into whether sufficient grounds exist to pursue an impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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Blizzard Pushes Snow, Wind Through East Coast
A major winter storm is set to hit the East Coast, starting Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. The blizzard is expected to hit Washington, DC, the hardest.