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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 — Voters adopted a $28.4 million fiscal year 2026 budget on Wednesday following a trying and contentious three-night Annual Town Meeting.

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 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 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 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 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.

By CHRIS LARABEE

BERNARDSTON — Residents at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting will be asked to pay off the entire balance of the borrowing for a new fire truck, which voters approved purchasing in 2024.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

ERVING — Using a new electronic voting system, residents will gather Wednesday, May 14, to vote on the 27 articles on the Annual Town Meeting warrant, including a $7.21 million town operating budget for fiscal year 2026.

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

HAWLEY — The 21 voters in attendance at Annual Town Meeting on Monday night swiftly passed all 27 warrant articles in just 22 minutes.

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

HEATH — Sixty-four Annual Town Meeting voters quickly approved all 22 articles on the warrant Saturday, including a $1.79 million town operating budget and a $982,290 Mohawk Trail Regional School District assessment for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

ROWE — Residents will be asked to approve a $4.88 million total budget for fiscal year 2026, $175,000 for planning library renovations, and provisions that seek to create a Rowe-Charlemont Fire District and preserve historic buildings in town during Annual Town Meeting.

By DIANE BRONCACCIO

SHELBURNE — In a two-night session that saw votes on 39 warrant articles, Annual Town Meeting voters adopted a nearly $6.24 million budget for fiscal year 2026, approved a new bylaw regulating short-term rentals, and set parameters for large-scale battery energy storage systems.