• In Tuesday's town election in Dover, voters named Joseph Mahon to the Selectboard, narrowly defeating incumbent William “Buzzy” Buswell, 136-121.
• Tragedy struck at the Rockingham meeting on Monday night when a voter collapsed and later died.
According to reports from the Brattleboro Reformer and the Eagle Times of Claremont, N.H., John Fuchs of Bellows Falls was standing up to speak about the ongoing renovations to the Rockingham Free Public Library when he collapsed and fell back into his chair at about 7:30 p.m.
Audience members performed CPR on Fuchs and first responders used a defibrillator on Fuchs several times as he lay motionless in the aisle.
Fuchs was taken to Springfield Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Selectboard Chair Tom MacPhee made the announcement of Fuchs's death shortly after 10 p.m.
• Broadband was a hot issue in both Marlboro and Townshend.
Gov. Peter Shumlin stopped into Townshend's Town Meeting and got an earful from residents complaining about the slow progress of extending broadband Internet in the West River Valley.
In Marlboro, state Rep. Richard Marek, D-Newfane, got a similar grilling from voters. Marek admitted that Windham County still trails the rest of the state in broadband access, despite Shumlin's assurances that the whole state will be connected by Dec. 31, 2013.
• Putney voted to keep its full-time contract with the Windham County Sheriff's Department. Voters approved spending $40,000, but left it up to the Selectboard to decide how to spend the money.
According to Sheriff Keith Clark, it may be possible for Putney to share the cost of coverage with Westminster, which also approved a full-time contract with the Sheriff's Department at its Town Meeting on Saturday.
Clark said Tuesday that a shared contract would mean that both towns would see 35 hours a week of service. Putney currently gets 40 hours of coverage.
• Londonderry voters approved a $1.6 million town budget.
Paul Gordon defeated Wayne Blanchard, 77-61 for a three-year seat on the Selectboard. Jim Amsden was unopposed for the two-year Selectboard seat.
In the race for Town Treasurer, Mike Bernhardt defeated Tina Labeau, 74-65.
• Only 29 voters attended Stratton's Town Meeting, out of 197 registered voters. It took only 40 minutes for voters to approve a $1.6 million town budget.
In the school portion of the meeting, voters cut a $300-per-family transportation stipend for families with schoolchildren.
That cut reduced the town's school budget from $637,475 to $630,875.
• Windham voted to change its property reappraisal process. The town will bring in a professional appraisal team, with a goal of making tax rates more equitable.
Voters also increased funding for pavement retreatment from $5,000 to $40,000.
• In Westminster, voters approved school budget questions via Australian ballot on Tuesday: Bellows Falls UHSD 27 and River Valley Technical Center, with votes of 233-126 and 256-101, respectively.
In the town's only contested race, voters named Paul Banik to the Selectboard with 192 votes.
Stephen Major, who challenged Banik, received 164 votes.
For a blank position on the ballot for town grand juror, write-in candidates Robert Lober and Peggy O'Toole, the incumbent, faced each other. Voters named Lober, 128-22.
Kate Guerrina unsuccessfully challenged David Ramos as a write-in candidate for the three-year town school director. Ramos won 192-116.
Of the town's 2,327 registered voters, 372, or 16 percent, turned out for the election on Tuesday.
Unopposed on the ballot: Fletcher D. Proctor (town agent and moderator for town, school, and fire district), Craig Allen, (selectman, two years), Harland “Harley” Rounds (lister), Malcolm “Sam” Streeter (town grand juror), Pete Harrison (Campbell Fund trustee), Ila Mitchell and Karen Walter (Campbell Commissioners), Pete Harrison (Public Funds trustee), David W. Wright (Fire District Prudential Committee).