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By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Monday’s annual Town Meeting will see residents consider a roughly $19.7 million budget and will again vote on a citizen’s petition seeking to ask the Legislature to lower the municipal voting age to 16, which failed by three votes last year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Residents at Friday’s annual Town Meeting will consider a $10.56 million budget and a $472,173 Community Preservation Act allocation for the proposed restoration of the Graves Memorial Library, as well as a citizen’s petition regarding land acknowledgment.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — In response to resident concerns and pleas from an April 1 listening session, the Select Board on Thursday voted to lower the Proposition 2½ override request from $3.3 million to $2.9 million in hopes that a more palatable number will pass at the ballot box.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — The future of the West Street Building, once an elementary school for the town’s youngest students, remains unclear after residents voted against appropriating $10 million to renovate the building into municipal offices and a new Council on Aging.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Residents at a public listening session last Thursday voiced their disappointment over the Select Board’s decision to advance a request for a $3.3 million Proposition 2½ general override to annual Town Meeting this spring, claiming the figure is too high for voters to stomach and puts school funding in jeopardy.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Residents will vote on a $10 million Proposition 2½ debt exclusion override to renovate half of the old West Street School into municipal offices for every department and a new senior center at a special Town Meeting on Tuesday.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — In an effort to boost participation at Annual Town Meeting in April, Deerfield will offer child care for the first time to provide an opportunity for parents to make their voices heard.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — After a month of parent protest and debate among town leaders, the Select Board narrowly approved putting a Proposition 2½ general override question on the ballot to fund level-services budgets for both the schools and the town.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members voted down all four zoning bylaw amendments at a special Town Meeting on Wednesday, with a majority of residents expressing dissatisfaction about the lack of mandated affordable housing and natural resource...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Residents approved numerous housekeeping articles at Tuesday’s special Town Meeting, such as cleaning up Whately’s zoning bylaws and matching a grant to fund a feasibility study of the former Center School.In an approximately 42-minute...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members will discuss eight bylaws to update the flexible development zoning bylaw, create animal impoundment guidelines and remove lawn care requirements during a special Town Meeting on Wednesday.The meeting at the Pioneer...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Several financial transfers, grant matches and amendments to clean up the zoning bylaws will come before voters in a housekeeping special Town Meeting set for Tuesday.Residents will consider 10 articles during the meeting, which will start...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Residents voted down the proposed animal control bylaw at the special Town Meeting Monday night, calling the legislation “unduly restrictive” for a farming community.“It seems very atypical for a farming community to have a leash law,”...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — With seven bylaws on the warrant for the Nov. 13 special Town Meeting, residents are raising objections to the proposed changes to zoning bylaws, including the flexible development bylaw, which they say gives too much control to...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A special Town Meeting next week will give residents a chance to approve a property tax work off program for seniors and veterans and adopt a new animal control bylaw with stricter leash laws.Voters will discuss the six-article warrant...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — A new animal control bylaw approved by the Select Board would impose stricter leash and nuisance laws for all domestic and personally-owned animals, from dogs and cats to ferrets and horses.The decision to revamp the laws came in the wake of...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Along with the 29 town-submitted articles, citizen’s petitions about having a single ZIP code for the town, a resolution to end the war in Gaza and lowering the municipal voting age were all approved at Whately’s annual Town Meeting.Over two...

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Voters will be asked to consider a $6.4 million budget for fiscal year 2025 and a slew of capital projects at Annual Town Meeting.The meeting will be held outside Whately Elementary School on Tuesday, June 18, at 6 p.m. The $6.4 million...

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — The town recently completed its two-part annual Town Meeting, at which residents passed a $29.1 million budget for fiscal 2025 while also listening to a contentious disagreement between the Finance Committee and the School and Fire...

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Residents formalized the position of town manager in town bylaws, adopted a zoning bylaw for stand-alone battery storage systems and endorsed a roughly $61.6 million budget for fiscal year 2025 at Monday’s Town Meeting — though some...

By ALEXA LEWIS

SOUTHAMPTON — Stepping over fire hoses and wires, Southampton Fire Chief Richard Fasoli opened the driver’s door to one of the fire engines as far as he could on a recent afternoon during a tour of the aging and cramped public safety complex. The...