Next Wednesday, May 1, Stowe voters will decide the fate of the town’s nascent short-term rental ordinance at a special meeting held at Stowe High School at 6 p.m.

While the Vermont Transportation Agency oversees work on the state’s network of inter-town highways, Lamoille County towns all have their own roadwork to-do lists.

As interest has grown in ranked choice voting in the Legislature, towns, interest groups and voters, the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office and the League of Women Voters of Vermont is hosting a two-part virtual to “inform debate and raise the profile of this system of voting.”

At the final of four monthly legislative breakfasts hosted Monday by the Lamoille Economic Development Corporation, it was perhaps fitting that, as folks munched on pastries, the biggest pastry of all was the central topic of the day.

After December flooding forced the closure of a bridge that effectively bisected Stowe’s Quiet Path, town employees scrambled to build a new one a few hundred feet away instead of waiting a much longer time to go through local and state permitting processes.

Bob Burley, a tenant at the Morrisville-Stowe Airport, said the airport was packed last week with planes, passengers and pilots who flew in to catch the sight of the total solar eclipse on April 8. He said all northern Vermont airports reported similar attendance.

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