Total town spending including education, at just over $8.5 million, is up by only 1 percent. The Richmond Consolidated School budget, at $4.2 million, a nearly 5 percent increase, also
Beginning May 1, the Town Hall will be trying out a new four day workweek with extended evening hours one day a week to become more accessible for residents.
The Richmond library currently is in a rented former garage and package store. It once was operated in a resident’s living room, and in the basement of the old Richmond
At the annual town meeting, Richmond residents approved a Planning Board zoning bylaw amendment protecting public access to open space and conservation land such as Berkshire National Resource Council’s Hollow
The Richmond Select Board is moving up major issues to the early part of the annual town meeting, including the $4 million school budget and two competing open-space zoning bylaws.