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Vernon prepares for outdoor Town Meeting

Don t miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   VERNON — For annual Town Meeting, voters are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and required to wear masks. “The whole process will be new but as far as what they’re voting on should be pretty much the same,” Interim Town Administrator Wendy Harrison said. Vernonvt.org warns, “This will not be your Mother’s or your Grandmother’s Town Meeting.” The annual Town Meeting, usually occurring in early March inside Vernon Elementary School, is scheduled for 2 p.m. May 23 on the lawn outside Town Hall. The Select Board approved the date and time in a 4-0 vote.

Pittsfield Council Says 'No' to 'Pay As You Throw' Trash

  Now is not the time to be talking trash during a pandemic, Ward 2 Councilor Kevin Morandi said.   At a second Committee of the Whole meeting, the council on Wednesday debated the proposed PAYT solid waste system for more than three hours and eventually voted to table it 7-4 with Morandi, Ward 4 Councilor Chris Connell, Ward 5 Councilor Patrick Kavey, and Ward 7 Councilor Anthony Maffuccio opposing.   Morandi, Connell, and Maffuccio have vocalized their stance against the PAYT system in the past and, last week, Morandi and Connell requested that the Resource Recovery Committee send back a 2019 recycling education plan that was first drafted by the councilors in 2018.

Community Members Raise Concern About Proposed Springside Pump Track

Town deals with garbage bag, phone issues

BRATTLEBORO — Phone lines went down and mislabeled garbage bags went out, causing some frustration around town. When postcards about absentee ballots for the March 2 election started going out last week, the town’s phone lines stopped working for about two days due to an issue within the system that affected other groups as well. The state’s online My Voter Page also wasn’t working around the same time. “The card is encouraging people to either call the town clerk’s office or go to MyVoterPage and people were striking out in both efforts through no fault of their own,” Town Manager Peter Elwell said at the Select Board meeting held remotely Tuesday. “There was a lot of frustration around that understandably.”

Pittsfield bid to reform trash system tabled, with plan to revisit in 2022

PITTSFIELD — Some Pittsfield city councilors said Wednesday they aren’t ready to decide whether to support a proposal to reform trash collections. And with that, a majority agreed Wednesday that any such program should not begin before summer 2022. At a Committee of the Whole meeting, councilors voted 8-3 to set July 1, 2022, as the earliest date on which such a proposal would go into effect. The council agreed it needs more time weigh the modified “pay-as-you-throw” proposal and hear more from residents. With the vote, “we let people know that they have over the next year to talk to us,” said At-Large Councilor Pete White, who introduced the proposal with fellow at-large councilors Earl Persip III and Peter Marchetti, also council president. Councilors debated reforms in how the city handles solid waste collection. They then tabled the measure, which Marchetti said would be revisited later.