The eponymous county seat of politically blue Bennington County last November voted just as enthusiastically against Pres. Trump and for Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Becca Balint as the rest of the state.
Districts confirmed as having failed their initial votes for 2025 are Alburgh, Fairfax, Georgia, Ludlow-Mount Holly, Paine Mountain, Slate Valley, Springfield, Stamford, and Wolcott.
A controversial resolution condemning Israel as an “apartheid” state passed in Thetford, Newfane, Brattleboro, and Winooski – but not in two small cities.
The city also will decide on a $26.7 million municipal budget and borrowing $4.8 million for improvements.
The state’s capitol city is among seven communities voting on a resolution condemning the State of Israel as a so-called “apartheid” state.
School districts and supervisory unions across Vermont said no to school budgets at Town Meeting.
School budgets, Nikki-Donald, and the Burlington mayoral race are the headliners of the tumultuous Town Meeting of ’24. But there was plenty of other big news.
First the governor says he probably won’t vote for his local school budget tomorrow. Now the Chairman of the House Education Committee says he’s not sure how he’ll vote either.
