Total town spending including education, at just over $8.5 million, is up by only 1 percent. The Richmond Consolidated School budget, at $4.2 million, a nearly 5 percent increase, also
Capsule reports on what residents will be asked to decide at town meetings this coming week in Lanesborough, New Ashford, Otis, Richmond, Stockbridge and Williamstown.
The Richmond Select Board is moving up major issues to the early part of the annual town meeting, including the $4 million school budget and two competing open-space zoning bylaws.