3/5/21 Hot topic: Voters at Dorchester’s Town Meeting will decide whether to increase the highway agent’s term in office from one year to three years once. 3/5/21 Hot topic: Voters in Orange are being asked if they will allow the moderator to appoint a committee of five residents to study the salaries of. 3/4/21 Hot topic: One article on the school warrant this year asks whether to add fifth grade to Croydon Village School, giving students the option to. 3/4/21 Hot Topic: Opposition to the effort to merge Haverhill’s three fire districts into one town fire department has prompted a slew of warrant articles.
Harkay turns back Selectboard challenge in Thetford
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Modified: 3/2/2021 10:06:26 PM
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THETFORD Selectboard member Sharon Harkay turned back a challenge from Orin Pacht for a two-year term in a 692-276 vote on Tuesday. Incumbent Li Shen also was re-elected with 764 votes, though there were 108 write-ins.
On the School Board, Megan Snider was unopposed for a three-year term and Donna Pluta won a two-year term.
Voters approved the general fund budget, 597-411, and the school budget on a 680-339 vote.
An article allowing the town to enter into tax stabilization contracts with owners or operators of agricultural or forest property, open space land, and alternative-energy generating plants passed on a 717-292 vote. But a similar article for commercial and industrial property narrowly failed, 673-346, falling just shy of the two-thirds majority required for passage.
THETFORD The Selectboard has extended the bid period for a nearly 8-acre town-owned hayfield on Route 244 near Lake Fairlee that had been eyed for workforce housing after getting two offers.The decision to keep the process open until March 15 came.
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