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By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — The town administrator plans to suggest that voters at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting table voting on the town’s budget and revisit the matter after a scheduled Proposition 2½ override vote.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — Annual Town Meeting was postponed again on Tuesday, this time so the Finance Committee could re-evaluate the proposed fiscal year 2026 budget.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — Voters determined on the floor of Special Town Meeting Monday night that the best way to address an overspent Highway Department budget would be to rearrange some line items and transfer an additional $16,000 from the town’s free cash and General Stabilization Fund.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — Residents will be asked to vote on nine articles during this week’s Special Town Meeting, including funding requests for the Farley Bridge repair project and replacement of the Church Street Bridge.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

HAWLEY — Voters will be asked to approve transferring $76,341 to cover budget overages for Highway Department supplies and vocational school tuition during next week’s Special Town Meeting.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — A Special Town Meeting is set for next week, as residents are asked to register an official notice of interest for the 1888 Building’s rehabilitation that would allow the project to move forward.

By DOMENIC POLI

ORANGE — A suggestion to postpone a budget vote at Monday’s Annual Town Meeting until after a scheduled Proposition 2½ override vote at the ballot box caused some to speak against the idea, arguing that it was taking the decision out of voters’ hands.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ROWE — Voters are being asked to approve transferring a total of $372,722 in free cash during a Special Town Meeting on Monday, June 16.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — Voters defeated a motion to create a new principal assessor role during the second part of Annual Town Meeting Monday night, a proposal that had some town officials feeling caught off guard.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CONWAY — Annual Town Meeting voters approved all 36 articles on the warrant on Saturday, including the creation of a new stabilization fund for the Highway Department and amending town bylaws to allow Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals members to continue their terms even after moving out of town.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GILL — The remaining financial articles for the second part of Annual Town Meeting will be taken up by voters next week, including a $5.17 million total budget for fiscal year 2026 that includes large assessment increases to the Gill-Montague Regional School District and Franklin County Technical School.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

WENDELL — The 117 voters who convened at Town Hall Wednesday night passed a Proposition 2½ override, marking the first time the town has approved an override in two decades.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Eighty-six residents approved all but one of the 25 articles on Tuesday’s Annual Town Meeting warrant, rejecting a petition that would have added a “Marijuana Product Light Manufacturer” to the town’s table of use regulations.

By DOMENIC POLI

NEW SALEM — Voters at Annual Town Meeting on Monday gave the nod to a budget that is $169,508 higher than the current fiscal year.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

LEYDEN — Voters passed all 27 articles on the warrant for Annual Town Meeting on Monday, including a $2.2 million budget and an $88,056 payment on the town’s broadband debt.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY – Residents at Tuesday’s annual Town Meeting will be asked to consider a nearly $6.86 million operating budget and several bylaw amendments.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

CHARLEMONT — Voters are set to consider a $4.6 million budget for fiscal year 2026, purchasing a $150,000 fire truck and adopting a short-term rental bylaw at Annual Town Meeting.

By CHRIS LARABEE

NORTHFIELD — Bernardston voters approved paying off the entire balance of the borrowing for a new fire truck at Town Meeting on Saturday, as well as 25 other articles on the Town Meeting, but voted down a citizen’s petition to add an October special Town Meeting to the calendar.

By DOMENIC POLI

MONTAGUE — Voters adopted the Annual Town Meeting warrant’s final 14 articles on Wednesday after having deliberated on the initial 17 articles on May 7.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — After the procedure for using the new electronic voting system clicked with Erving voters, all 27 articles on the Annual Town Meeting warrant were approved.

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

ROWE — Forty-nine Rowe voters approved 35 articles during Annual Town Meeting Monday evening, including an article authorizing the town to purchase a 179-acre property on Tunnel Road for use as recreational land and another to enter into a regional fire district with Charlemont.