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Town Meeting Day 2026: What's up for a vote in your town?

A hand with a smart watch on the wrist holds up a paper to vote
Joey Palumbo
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Vermont Public
A person votes during Plainfield's town meeting in 2025.

One of Vermont’s most beloved annual traditions is nearly here — Town Meeting Day. For our annual preview show, residents of five different communities tell us about what's on their ballots this year.

Vermont Public senior reporter Nina Keck shared her reporting on Rutland City's write-in mayoral race. Pomfret selectboard chair Benjamin Brickner filled us in on a ballot item relating to non-residents holding town offices.

Mountain Views School District school board member and Woodstock resident Keri Bristow talked about a rebuild bond vote for the town's high school and middle school. Over in Ripton, selectboard chair Laurie Cox said a vote to maintain the closed elementary school could make it available for town use. She also reflected on her 40-year selectboard service as she steps down from the role.

In Grand Isle, selectboard member Ron Bushway and his fellow residents are considering a tax-payer-funded removal of ash trees that have been killed by the invasive emerald ash borer.

Broadcast live on Monday, March 2, 2026, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Mikaela Lefrak is the host and senior producer of Vermont Edition. Her stories have aired nationally on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Marketplace, The World and Here and Now. A seasoned local reporter, Mikaela has won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and a Public Media Journalists Association award for her work.
Andrea Laurion joined Vermont Public as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.
Daniela Fierro is a news producer for Vermont Edition. Email Daniela.
Maeve joined Vermont Public in January of 2026 as Production Intern for Vermont Edition. Her prior journalism experience comes from working for the University of Vermont Community News Service as an Environmental Reporter and Radio Journalism Intern. She is learning to produce live radio shows and will also make feature stories for Vermont Public this spring. She's a senior at the University of Vermont, majoring in Environmental Studies and minoring in Reporting and Documentary Storytelling.