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Recent Examples of town meeting
The council must endorse a budget by April 29, then convene a town meeting and set the budget and tax rate May 11.
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Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
Town meeting voters in Bellingham most recently rejected the NFG ordinance, while an NFG bylaw enacted by the Board of Health was recently rescinded by town meeting voters in Manchester-By-The-Sea.
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Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
The affordable housing proposal for 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive was introduced by Kirby Marcantonio, one of the four partners in contract to buy the land for the development, at a town meeting last week, the East Hampton Star reported.
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Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
11 Dec. 2025
At a crowded special town meeting attended by roughly 1,500 residents on Tuesday night, more than 70% backed a measure allowing homeowners to rent out their properties without any requirements on length of stay.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
Town meeting voters in Bellingham most recently rejected the NFG ordinance, while an NFG bylaw enacted by the Board of Health was recently rescinded by town meeting voters in Manchester-By-The-Sea.
—
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
The affordable housing proposal for 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive was introduced by Kirby Marcantonio, one of the four partners in contract to buy the land for the development, at a town meeting last week, the East Hampton Star reported.
—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
11 Dec. 2025
At a crowded special town meeting attended by roughly 1,500 residents on Tuesday night, more than 70% backed a measure allowing homeowners to rent out their properties without any requirements on length of stay.
—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for town meeting
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Kicking off with opening night on July 28, the five-day festival will feature daily performances, free dance workshops and a panel discussion with the artistic leaders from each company.
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At a corporate event at Chase Center on Thursday, Warriors owner Joe Lacob and star forward Jimmy Butler sat next to IREN founder Daniel Roberts as part of a panel discussion.
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They've been called the YOLO caucus, right?
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Kiley remains listed as a member of the Republican Governance Group, a caucus of moderate House Republicans whose affiliated PAC contributed $7,000 to his campaign.
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And at times members of the congregation thank her and others for casting aside those anxieties and keeping this place going.
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The Zion Church is among the largest churches that are unregistered with the Chinese authorities, defying restrictions from the officially atheist Communist Party requiring believers to worship only in registered congregations.
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Alysa Guffey More than 50 people gathered in 90-degree heat to protest welcoming data centers to Indianapolis before packing the public assembly room on the second floor of the City-County Building.
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Management intends for this centralized assembly method to establish a standardized production system for future units.
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The testimony of the gay men, contained in annexes published on the Vatican's synod website, featured moving accounts of how one, from Portugal, came to terms with his homosexuality and married his husband.
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Leo, the former Cardinal Robert Prevost, spent two weeks sitting with Fuanya at the same table during Pope Francis’ 2024 big meeting, or synod, on the family.
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Among the attractions are a Maid Cafe inspired by Tokyo’s Akihabara district, the Anime Expo Fashion Show, J-Pop performances, academic symposiums, gaming panels and previews of upcoming anime series and films.
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The Redken Symposium format has evolved over the years—some symposiums have offered more a la carte classes, while this year the focus has been on mainstage sessions.
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The methods used to measure whether vaccines work, and the way they were discussed during the recent seminar, are not a side issue.
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The atmosphere was not much better in my upper-level seminars.
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McGill’s superbly nuanced calls, runs, and trills elicited commentary from a second audience, perched in the trees above—a colloquium of finches, towhees, titmice, kingbirds, juncos, and Eurasian collared doves.
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The answer, according to a colloquium of leading epidemiologists, microbiologists and climate scientists, is not well enough.
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“Town meeting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/town%20meeting. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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