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Streaming now — Town Meeting
The select board is meeting at Town Hall to discuss the 2026-2027 budget. Three items on the agenda could affect property taxes. Over 200 residents have signed in, the largest turnout in a decade. Watch it live.
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If you use Elm Street to get to work, you'll need Route 16 starting April 1. The board heard from 40 residents before the vote. Several business owners on the south side say six months without through traffic could be devastating. The mayor's office says emergency vehicle rerouting plans are still being finalized.
The station on Maple Street will replace the 1960s-era facility. Response times to the east side are expected to drop by three minutes.
The proposal would keep the children's wing open until 7 PM on weekdays. The board needs $18,000 to cover staffing.
Residents on Pine Avenue and surrounding streets can resume normal water use. Testing confirmed safe levels.
Thirty-two volunteers turned out Saturday morning. The trail will reopen for spring hiking next weekend.
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Ronald Routhier
Editor · March 12, 2026
The select board's 3-2 vote to close Elm Street bridge isn't just about a detour.
It's about what happens to the businesses on the south side when their customers stop coming for six months. It's about the ambulance response time to Riverside Estates jumping from four minutes to eleven. And it's about whether we're willing to pay now for infrastructure we've ignored for two decades, or keep patching holes until something worse than a bridge gives way.
I've lived in this town for 30 years. I remember when Elm Street was the only way to get to the hospital from the south side. That hasn't changed. What's changed is our willingness to pretend that "temporary" fixes are permanent solutions. Six months is an eternity for a small business already running on fumes after four hard years.
Karen Whitfield
Guest contributor · March 11, 2026
My daughter's third-grade class has 28 students and one teacher.
The heat in the east wing hasn't worked properly since January. I'm not writing this to complain — I'm writing because I sat through last Tuesday's board meeting and watched the budget discussion skip right past maintenance and staffing to talk about a new scoreboard for the football field. Our kids deserve a warm classroom before they deserve a new scoreboard. I'm asking the board to reopen the facilities line item before the final vote on March 24.
I talked to six other parents after the meeting. Every single one of them wanted to say something but didn't because the public comment period was cut to two minutes per speaker. Two minutes to talk about our children's education. We can do better than this. We have to.
Maria Perez
Community voice · March 9, 2026
The library closed on Sundays three years ago to save $22,000 a year. Since then, Sunday foot traffic downtown has dropped measurably. The coffee shop on Library Lane lost its busiest morning. The teen study group moved to the McDonald's on Route 28. I'm not arguing the math was wrong — I'm arguing the math was incomplete. A library isn't just a line item. It's an anchor.
The full two-hour session including public comment, budget presentation, and the 3-2 vote on the Elm Street bridge.
The ceremony, speeches from the fire chief and mayor, and a look at the architectural plans for the new facility.
All the key plays from a dominant 28-14 Bears victory. Touchdown highlights, post-game interviews, and crowd reactions.
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"I kept meeting people who had jobs — two jobs — and still couldn't make it to the end of the month."
When Sarah Chen retired from teaching last June, she didn't plan to open a food pantry. But after volunteering at the community center's holiday meal drive, she saw how many families in town were going without. By September, she'd secured a lease on the old hardware store space on Oak Street, and the donations started coming in. The pantry now serves 85 families a week, stocked almost entirely by local donations and staffed by 12 regular volunteers.
"People don't want a handout," she says. "They want to get through the month. They want to put something in the lunchbox that isn't ramen. That's what we're here for." The pantry's busiest day is Thursday — the day before school lets out for the weekend, when parents are thinking about two extra meals a day.
By WTMT-1 Staff · March 10, 2026
Three decades of varsity basketball, two state titles, and a retirement ceremony that brought back players from the class of '88. The gym was standing room only. His former point guard from the '92 championship team flew in from Seattle.
Jake Morrill, 17, spent six months clearing brush and repairing headstones at the town's oldest burial ground. The historical society called it "the best thing to happen to that site in 50 years." He catalogued 47 previously illegible gravestone inscriptions dating back to 1803.
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After three failed attempts over five years, voters approved the bond by a 58-42 margin. Renovation work is expected to begin summer 2026.
The story of Sarah Chen's journey from retirement to running the busiest community resource on Oak Street.
The largest crowd in the parade's 40-year history. Twelve floats, four marching bands, and a flyover from the National Guard.
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