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Because the special town meeting wasn't warned in time, Tuesday's vote on three local option taxes can't stand on its own. "To find a glitch in our own town's election doesn't really instill a lot of confidence," one resident told the Selectboard.
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The operation targeted motorcycles, scooters and mopeds over concerns about how the vehicles are used and stored in Roxbury and Dorchester, police said.
Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark is among the signers of a bipartisan letter backing the Senate version of the bill, which would set minimum safety standards for social media and gaming platforms.
Transit police said the attacker followed the victim from the street onto a Green Line platform and was caught soon after he ran off. The man's injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Bernard Fludd, 38, died at a hospital after he was found with a gunshot wound on Mill Hill Avenue. Police count it as the city's ninth homicide of 2026.
Michael E. McGuire has been relieved of duty. Police say a woman he once dated returned home in the early hours of Nov. 1 and found him in her bed.
Biddeford police are investigating the second vandalism at the senator's downtown office since September, which her chief of staff called part of a series of attempts to intimidate her and her staff.
The former Patriots tight end posed with the conservative group's volunteers at a Goffstown polling place and greeted voters in Bedford as the group worked to turn out Republicans in a state with a marquee Senate race.
A coalition including Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark says a U.S. Census Bureau proposal would unlawfully exclude millions of noncitizens and drop questions on race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
The town manager said no federal monitors were expected at Brunswick's polling place on Election Day.
The chief told selectmen that 287(g) funds could cut about $22,000 from roughly $68,000 in proposed police budget increases.
Councilwoman Eneida Martinez apologized for ignoring the chair during an Oct. 19 meeting; Council member Maria Pereira said the council president had failed to control it.