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Halifax Town Meeting Converts Clerk and Treasurer Offices to Appointed Positions

HALIFAX -- May 12, 2026, Halifax Town Meeting advances governance overhaul and keeps $1.5 million override on Saturday's ballot. Meeting on the second night of the annual session, residents voted 149 to 79 to convert the town clerk's office from elected to appointed, the narrowest result

Halifax Town Meeting Approves $999,777 Override Ask for FY27 Ballot

HALIFAX -- May 11, 2026, Halifax Annual Town Meeting rewrites its override ask from $1.5 million to $999,777 after a last-minute $625,000 accounting discovery upended the budget. Town Administrator Stephen Sobo disclosed Friday, May 8, that approximately $625,000 in budget compilation discrepancies had emerged, prompting a

Hull Town Meeting Borrows $4 Million to Move Town Hall to Middle School

HULL -- May 7, 2026, Hull Town Meeting closes four-night session with contentious 147-56 vote to borrow $4 million for town hall relocation. Approving the borrowing on May 7 brings the total budget for relocating town offices from 253 Atlantic Avenue to the Memorial Middle School to just over

Hull Town Meeting Approves Transparency Bylaws, Repeals 2018 HRA Land Transfer Authority

HULL -- May 6, 2026, Hull Town Meeting passed a pair of transparency bylaws and repealed a seven-year-old authorization allowing the Select Board to transfer land in the Nantasket Avenue corridor without voter approval. Voters backed citizens' petitions by Susan Vermilio and Michael Marlow, 145 to 70 and

Hull Town Meeting debates shifting light plant control away from town manager

HULL -- May 6, 2026, Hull Town Meeting sparks another round of debate over municipal light plant governance. Town Meeting took up Article 40, a citizen's petition to restructure oversight of the Hull Municipal Light Plant and direct the Select Board to transmit enabling legislation to the state legislature,