Town Meeting Day

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…

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…

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...

Due to the pandemic, town hall meetings in Vermont look different this year.

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.

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...

On Town Meeting Day in Vermont, voters hashed out issues like whether to ban plastic bags at stores and restaurants.

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.

On Town Meeting Day in Vermont, voters in Morristown, Vermont, will consider changing their community’s name.

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…

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.

At least 36 cities and towns in Vermont will answer an advisory question on Town Meeting Day pertaining to climate change.

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.

Vermont does not allow candidates who are on the ballot to also serve as polling place officials

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.