Due to a snowstorm March 14, many communities postponed their town and school elections. Here’s when and where to vote on town and school district issues in select communities around the state, and where to access town and school district warrants.
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Saturday, March 18, 2023
THE FOLLOWING IS A ROUNDUP of results from town meetings held last week. The communities that postponed elections due to the snowstorm on March 14 are noted below. For voting times, go to www.unionleader.com/tm2023. Results from ballot votes held March 28 will run in the April 2 edition of t…
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
DALTON — As opponents of a proposed regional landfill celebrated the defeat of warrant articles at Tuesday’s town meeting, which they feared would let the project advance, the developer said plans for the Granite State Landfill will continue to move forward.
Saturday, March 04, 2023
THE FOLLOWING IS A ROUNDUP of the notable warrant articles voters will consider in March. For more information, go to your town or school district’s website. For voting times, go to www.unionleader.com/tm2023.
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
CONCORD — Secretary of State David Scanlan has come out in opposition to moving the state’s primary to June, with officials saying he prefers to move it just a few weeks ahead of its current September date.
Saturday, April 09, 2022
CROYDON — Croydon School Board members said at a public hearing Friday night that there is room to cut the original $1.7 million budget that is up for a revote May 7.
Friday, April 08, 2022
HANOVER — A warrant article that would have the town of Hanover adopt a leash law was pulled from the ballot by the Select Board at its deliberative session.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
HANOVER — Town residents in May will vote on requiring dogs to be leashed in public, the Select Board decided this week.
Saturday, March 19, 2022
It wasn’t the most expensive item on the town meeting warrant, but it likely was the most heartfelt.
Friday, March 11, 2022
CONCORD — The towns of Deerfield and Plymouth voted to allow establishments to offer Keno 603 during town meetings on Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
BELMONT — Voters on Tuesday rejected six of eight petitioned warrant articles, including one calling for the firing of Police Chief Mark Lewandoski, but approved enlarging the Board of Selectmen from three to five members and a ban on the retail sale of cats and dogs bred in commercial “mills.”
Amherst schools: The “Facilities Bond” article proposing to spend $83 million on Amherst Middle School renovations; and addition, reconstruction and renovations at Clark/Wilkins Elementary schools failed by more than 700 votes, 1,193-1,902, at the polls on Tuesday. A bond article, Article 12…
Bedford residents overwhelmingly supported a zoning amendment to limit the expansion of large medical centers in a part of the town.
Saturday, March 05, 2022
At town meetings around the state this week, voters will be asked to approve contracts to give pay raises to support staff in schools, including bus drivers and para-educators.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
The following is a roundup of some of the big and notable warrant articles that voters will consider in March. For more information, go to your town or school district’s website.
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Amid national debates over election fraud and voting access, town meeting voters in some New Hampshire communities will be deciding next month whether to get rid of vote-counting machines and switch to hand-counting of all ballots.
When and where vote next month on town and school district issues in select communities around the state, and where to access town and school district warrants:
Sunday, March 21, 2021
A sitting selectman, the town clerk, assistant town clerk and town treasurer all resigned after Gilsum’s recent town meeting election.
Friday, March 12, 2021
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Bedford voters on Wednesday approved the allocation of $2 million in surplus funds to acquire land and design a future public safety building, but several residents said the money should have been returned to the taxpayers instead.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Wednesday, March 03, 2021
Merrimack voters will decide at the polls next month whether to abolish the school district’s 12-member budget committee.
Monday, February 15, 2021
After failed efforts to pass proposed expansion projects in the past, Hampstead voters will be asked to consider a $9 million addition and $2.1 million renovation to Hampstead Central School.
Tuesday, February 09, 2021
The Newport School Board has slashed its own budget proposal by more than $500,000 after getting several state grants.
Monday, February 08, 2021
School officials and the budget committee in Litchfield have opposing opinions on what the school district’s upcoming spending plan should look like.
Monday, February 01, 2021
A proposed three-year police contract in Goffstown is aimed to help recruit and retain patrolmen.
Goffstown voters will consider a proposed 4% increase in the school district’s spending plan next month at the polls.
Monday, June 01, 2020
Jaffrey officials hope the fourth time’s the charm as they make another attempt to have their annual town meeting.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Many Granite Staters voted in town meetings last week. Following are results from a number of those towns. For more detailed results, visit the respective town’s website.
Friday, March 13, 2020
CONCORD — Moderators who will run the plethora of town and school district meetings scheduled for this weekend have the power to postpone them over fears of coronavirus spread, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said on Friday.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
MEREDITH — The widower of the woman struck and killed by a vehicle on Main Street used town meeting as a forum to press for safety improvements aimed at slowing traffic.{div}Jane Gregoire, 72, had just left the post office at 76 Main St., and was crossing in the direction of Lakes Region Nut…
The proposed budget of $77.7M was approved with a vote of 1,929 to 1,733.
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Polling stations across the state made hand sanitizer and wipes available Tuesday to town meeting voters amid growing concerns of the spread of COVID-19.
It plans to withdraw by July 1, 2021, and it will need to create its own SAU.
Swanzey voters want a new fire station, just not enough to make the nearly $4 million proposal a reality.
The five-town Fall Mountain Regional School District remains intact as voters rejected a plan to allow Charlestown to leave.
Plans include improvements to the land along the Ammonoosuc.
The current building will be torn down.
Eric Chinburg, president of Chinburg Properties, has said that if voters approved the sale he would redevelop the seminary and old science building for apartments.
Friday, March 11, 2022
CONCORD — The towns of Deerfield and Plymouth voted to allow establishments to offer Keno 603 during town meetings on Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
BELMONT — Voters on Tuesday rejected six of eight petitioned warrant articles, including one calling for the firing of Police Chief Mark Lewandoski, but approved enlarging the Board of Selectmen from three to five members and a ban on the retail sale of cats and dogs bred in commercial “mills.”
Amherst schools: The “Facilities Bond” article proposing to spend $83 million on Amherst Middle School renovations; and addition, reconstruction and renovations at Clark/Wilkins Elementary schools failed by more than 700 votes, 1,193-1,902, at the polls on Tuesday. A bond article, Article 12…
Bedford residents overwhelmingly supported a zoning amendment to limit the expansion of large medical centers in a part of the town.
Saturday, March 05, 2022
At town meetings around the state this week, voters will be asked to approve contracts to give pay raises to support staff in schools, including bus drivers and para-educators.
Saturday, February 26, 2022
The following is a roundup of some of the big and notable warrant articles that voters will consider in March. For more information, go to your town or school district’s website.
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Amid national debates over election fraud and voting access, town meeting voters in some New Hampshire communities will be deciding next month whether to get rid of vote-counting machines and switch to hand-counting of all ballots.