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By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY— Town Meeting attendees will consider a $27.5 million operating budget, a new stormwater bylaw and the future of West Street Building during the second half of the annual Town Meeting on Monday.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — After five months of weighing more expensive and expansive options to turn the West Street Building into town offices and a new Council on Aging, residents at Monday’s special Town Meeting returned to a $5.6 million project to move all town offices under one roof in part of the old elementary school building.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY — Eighty-six residents approved all but one of the 25 articles on Tuesday’s Annual Town Meeting warrant, rejecting a petition that would have added a “Marijuana Product Light Manufacturer” to the town’s table of use regulations.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WORTHINGTON — The 32 articles on Saturday’s annual Town Meeting will set the stage for the town to find a path out of a potential Proposition 2½ override request in approximately 35 days.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — When the high school’s television projected 941 votes in favor of the School Department’s $34.54 million fiscal year 2026 budget to 154 votes against, a majority of the nearly 1,100 in attendance at a packed Town Meeting on Saturday erupted into cheers.

By CHRIS LARABEE

WHATELY – Residents at Tuesday’s annual Town Meeting will be asked to consider a nearly $6.86 million operating budget and several bylaw amendments.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — A $66 million fiscal year 2026 operational budget, tax relief for seniors and veterans and a slew of projects funded by the Community Preservation Act are hot topics that Belchertown residents will deliberate on Saturday morning during the annual Town Meeting.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

WILLIAMSBURG — Voters at annual Town Meeting on Monday will have a say in approving a budget for next fiscal year that will climb over $10 million for the first time, according to Town Administrator Nick Caccamo.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — Residents echoed their disapproval of a Proposition 2½ debt exclusion override to renovate the West Street Building into town offices during Monday’s town elections after previously voting the project down at a special Town Meeting last month.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — Town Meeting members on Wednesday overwhelmingly supported the formal creation of the town’s first historic district, declared the town a “welcoming community,” and established an affordable housing trust.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — On Wednesday, Town Meeting members will contemplate approval of the town’s first historic district, reduction of speed limits on thickly settled roads and a citizen petitioned ordinance declaring South Hadley a welcoming community.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — The first half of Town Meeting on Monday will ask voters to approve routine municipal operations, such as tuition payments for students attending vocational schools, operating funds for the ambulance, sewer and solid waste departments and capital purchases.

By AALIANNA MARIETTA

LEVERETT — Roughly 100 residents voted to approve Leverett’s share of the Amherst-Pelham Regional School District budget, accept a 146.3-acre property gift and appropriate funds for a series of community preservation projects during Saturday’s annual Town Meeting.

By SAMUEL GELINAS

CUMMINGTON — When annual Town Meeting is called to order on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Community House at 33 Main St., voters will be asked to approve a budget for next fiscal year that’s $500,000, or 17%, higher than the current year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — For the second time in two years, annual Town Meeting voters have rejected a citizen’s petition that would have asked the state Legislature to lower the municipal voting age to 16.

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

SUNDERLAND — Residents approved all 20 articles on the Annual Town Meeting warrant on Friday, including a $10.56 million operating budget for fiscal year 2026 and a citizen’s petition to create a land acknowledgment.

By CHRIS LARABEE

DEERFIELD — Monday’s annual Town Meeting will see residents consider a roughly $19.7 million budget and will again vote on a citizen’s petition seeking to ask the Legislature to lower the municipal voting age to 16, which failed by three votes last year.

By CHRIS LARABEE

SUNDERLAND — Residents at Friday’s annual Town Meeting will consider a $10.56 million budget and a $472,173 Community Preservation Act allocation for the proposed restoration of the Graves Memorial Library, as well as a citizen’s petition regarding land acknowledgment.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — In response to resident concerns and pleas from an April 1 listening session, the Select Board on Thursday voted to lower the Proposition 2½ override request from $3.3 million to $2.9 million in hopes that a more palatable number will pass at the ballot box.

By EMILEE KLEIN

GRANBY — The future of the West Street Building, once an elementary school for the town’s youngest students, remains unclear after residents voted against appropriating $10 million to renovate the building into municipal offices and a new Council on Aging.

By EMILEE KLEIN

BELCHERTOWN — Residents at a public listening session last Thursday voiced their disappointment over the Select Board’s decision to advance a request for a $3.3 million Proposition 2½ general override to annual Town Meeting this spring, claiming the figure is too high for voters to stomach and puts school funding in jeopardy.