2026 Town Meeting

All these costs are baked into Hopkinton’s $29.3 million school budget, a 4.7% increase over last year. Voters approved the budget in a ballot vote of 220 to 67 on March 14, 2026.

Voters in the towns of Ossipee, Carroll, Troy and Gorham voted at town meetings this week on whether their police officers should continue to help with federal immigration efforts.

The annual town meeting in Bow, New Hampshire, lasted over four hours as voters requested secret ballots to decide an unusually high number of warrant articles.

Lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow students to attend any public school in the state and require their community to pay the new district for the education. Schools could also have to accept students from outside their districts.

New Hampshire town and school meetings saw proposed tax caps on the ballot this week. Lawmakers are considering a bill to require towns consider tax caps every two years.

After the idea for a new library arose in 1986, the Daland Memorial Library finally made its debut in Mont Vernon in February.

In Epping, the $38 million bond approved by voters will allow the town to fix up their wastewater plant and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in fines.

The cap, had it gone into effect, would have meant up to $9 million in cuts beginning in July 2027.

New Hampshire towns held local elections Tuesday. In addition to municipal budgets, voters had thoughts about Iran, the price of gas, and lots more.