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Photos: Town Meeting Day 2025
Vermonters gather for in-person and ballot voting on March 4, 2025.
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Residents raise their hands for a floor vote at Waterbury's town meeting Tuesday. (Kyle Ambusk / Vermont Public)
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Scott Blanchard, treasurer for the town of Washington, comments on an article about property tax collection at Washington's town meeting at the Washington Village School. (Zoe McDonald / Vermont Public)
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Residents add colored stickers to a town map at Waterbury's town meeting. The colors correspond with prompts like, "Where would you want to see new housing in town?" The Waterbury Planning Commission is collecting community input to help them craft a new town plan. (Kyle Ambusk / Vermont Public)
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The Williams family — Cannon and Jase, age 10, on the left, and Kara, right — fill out paper ballots at Washington's town meeting at the Washington Village School. (Zoe McDonald / Vermont Public )
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Duncan McDougall speaks at Waterbury's town meeting. (Kyle Ambusk / Vermont Public)
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Montgomery's town meeting saw high turnout as voters considered the future of a first-ever wastewater system project. (Brian Stevenson / Vermont Public)
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Tiffany Salyards, left, and Tosca Smith, codirectors of Heart Full Kitchen, which serves as Montgomery's food shelf, prepare a turkey gravy and biscuit luncheon for the attendees of Town Meeting Day, taking advantage of two large turkeys donated to them from a local farmer. (Brian Stevenson / Vermont Public)
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A person votes during Plainfield's town meeting. (Joey Palumbo / Vermont Public)
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The Plainfield Select Board counts votes on an amendment to the village expansion reserve fund article. (Joey Palumbo / Vermont Public)
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Town Meeting Day cake — a local tradition — in Mendon. (Nina Keck / Vermont Public)
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Royalton Assistant Town Clerk Jan Cilley crochets in between votes. (Abagael Giles / Vermont Public )
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Doug Lilley waits for town meeting to begin in Calais. Lilley was prepared to offer complaints on issues including public access to cold springs and plow trucks nicking trees on Tucker Road. (Joey Palumbo / Vermont Public)
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A Town Meeting Day bake sale in Chittenden raised money for the town historical society. (Nina Keck / Vermont Public)
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A string band from West Windham opens Windham’s town meeting with Woody Guthrie’s song “This Land Is Your Land.” (Howard Weiss-Tisman / Vermont Public)
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The town meeting in Lyndon was held in person for the first time since 2020. Voters approved the town and highway department budgets, which included expenses related to flooding like paying volunteer firefighters who were responding to calls, repairing highway damage and funding cleanup. Voters also rejected proposals to move to an Australian ballot. (Lexi Krupp / Vermont Public)
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Jay Town Clerk Lynnette Deaette, left and Select Board Member Tara Morse count the votes for appropriating funds to the Jay/Westfield Joint Elementary School. The measure passed 30-2. (Brittany Patterson / Vermont Public )
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Voters leave the Calais town meeting on March 4, 2025. (Joey Palumbo / Vermont Public)
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