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Questions about anything on this page? Town Clerk’s Office, (802) 223-5915, clerk@middlesexvermont.org. Open Tuesday–Thursday, 9am–5pm. Mondays and Fridays by appointment.

October 13 Building a Resilient Middlesex Community Forum

Join the Middlesex Planning Commission on October 13 for pizza and a community forum on building a more resilient future for Middlesex. Share your ideas for a year-long planning study focused on the Great Brook, flood resilience, community preparedness, and flexible housing solutions. Here is the Community Forum Fly and the Community Forum Agenda and go here for the full agenda, Zoom link, and more detail →
 

November 3 General Election Warning

REGISTER TO VOTE OR REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Polls are open 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Middlesex Town Hall, 5 Church Street.

Three ballots this year

Middlesex voters will receive three separate ballots:

  1. The General Election ballot — statewide, county, and local offices, plus two proposed constitutional amendments. See sample ballot. 
  2. A Washington Central Unified Union School District ballot — one article, asking whether the district may lease property at the U-32 campus to the Central Vermont Career Center. WCUUSD Warning 
  3. A Central Vermont Career Center School District ballot — two articles: a bond not to exceed $54,900,000 to expand career and technical education by building on the U-32 campus, and authorization for a 30-year ground lease of that property. CVCC Warning

Middlesex is a member town of both districts, so our voters weigh in on both.

A public informational hearing on the Career Center articles is scheduled for Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 p.m., at 155 Ayers Street in Barre, with a remote option. Questions about the project, the cost, and the lease are best directed there or to the districts.

Your General Election ballot comes to you

Every active registered voter in Vermont is automatically mailed a General Election ballot. You do not need to request one. These are mailed by the Secretary of State’s office, not by the Town, and come with a postage-paid return envelope.

Ballots go out beginning September 21, and state law requires the mailing to be complete by October 1. Most Middlesex voters should have theirs during the first half of October.

If your ballot has not arrived by mid-October, please call us at (802) 223-5915 or email clerk@middlesexvermont.org. Don’t wait and hope — we can check whether one was mailed to you and get a replacement out if it wasn’t.

The automatic mailing covers only the General Election ballot. If you want to vote the two school district ballots before Election Day, please call the Town Clerk’s office at (802) 223-5915, and we will make sure you get everything you’re entitled to. We’ll post more details here as soon as we have them.

Voting in person on November 3 is simplest: you’ll be handed all three ballots at the same time.

Three ways to return your mailed ballot

  1. By mail — the return envelope is postage-paid. Mail it early enough to arrive by Election Day.
  2. To the Town Clerk’s office — any time before the office closes on Monday, November 2, the day before the election.
  3. At the polls — bring it to Town Hall before 7:00 p.m. on Election Day.

Changed your mind, or never got your ballot? As long as you have not returned it, you can vote in person at the polls on Election Day instead.

If something is wrong with your returned ballot — an unsigned certificate, a missing envelope — you will be notified within three days of the Clerk receiving it, and you will have the chance to correct it so your vote counts.

Track your ballot and check your registration

Visit vote.vermont.gov to confirm you’re registered, see the date your ballot was mailed, track its return, and view your sample ballot. If you have moved, registered recently, or aren’t sure your registration is active, check there first — or call us at (802) 223-5915 and we’ll look it up with you.

Registering to vote

There is no registration deadline in Vermont. You may register any day up to and including Election Day — online at vote.vermont.gov, by mail, at the Town Clerk’s office during business hours, or at the polls on Election Day. First-time voters registering online or by mail will need to include a copy of an accepted ID.

What’s on the ballot

Offices

  • Statewide: U.S. Representative, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State, Auditor of Accounts, and Attorney General
  • Legislative: all 30 State Senate seats and all 150 State Representative seats
  • County: Probate Judge, Assistant Judges, State’s Attorney, Sheriff, and High Bailiff
  • Local: Justices of the Peace

There is no U.S. Senate race in Vermont this year.

Two proposed amendments to the Vermont Constitution

  • Proposal 3 would establish in the Constitution the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employer.
  • Proposal 4 would guarantee equal protection under the law, and provide that the State shall not deny equal treatment on account of a person’s race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or national origin.

Full text of both proposals is available from the Vermont General Assembly, and the Secretary of State publishes an explanation of each amendment before the election.

School district articles

  • Washington Central Unified Union School District — authorization to enter a ground lease with the Central Vermont Career Center for property at the U-32 campus.
  • Central Vermont Career Center School District — a bond not to exceed $54,900,000 to expand career and technical education by building on the U-32 campus, and authorization to enter a 30-year ground lease for that property.

Warnings for both districts will be posted at Town Hall and linked here when available.

Results

General Election results for Middlesex will be available on election night. The school district articles are voted across multiple towns and have to be counted together, so those results will not be final on election night — Washington Central’s are expected the same night, and the Career Center’s a few days later.

Upcoming Meetings, Fall 2026

Meetings are held at Town Hall, 5 Church Street, and on Zoom unless otherwise stated. The schedule is subject to confirmation as agendas are posted. Zoom details are below and on each meeting agenda.

See also the projected monthly meeting calendar, July–December 2026.

  • Mon, Oct 12 7pm Trails Committee Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Oct 13 6–8pm Planning Commission — Community Forum, Flyer and Agenda
  • Tue, Oct 13 6–8:30pm Planning Commission Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Wed, Oct 14 5:30pm Cemetery Commission Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Thu, Oct 15 5pm Town Road Committee Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Oct 20 4pm Budget Committee Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Oct 20 5pm Selectboard Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Oct 20 6:30pm Board of Civil Authority — Pre-Election following Selectboard
  • Wed, Oct 21 5pm Planning Commission Meeting(regular), Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Oct 27 7pm Conservation Commission Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Wed, Oct 28 6pm Development Review Board Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Nov 3 7am – 7pm GENERAL ELECTION — Town Hall, 5 Church Street. Three ballots: general election, WCUUSD lease, and CVCC bond and lease. BCA assists
  • Wed, Nov 4 5pm Facilities Improvement Team Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Mon, Nov 9 7pm Trails Committee Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Wed, Nov 11 5:30pm Cemetery Commission Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Nov 17 4pm Budget Committee Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Nov 17 5pm Selectboard Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Wed, Nov 18 5pm Planning Commission Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Thu, Nov 19 5pm Town Road Committee Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Tue, Nov 24 7 pm Conservation Commission Meeting, Agenda and Minutes
  • Wed, Nov 25 6pm Development Review Board Meeting, Agenda and Minutes

Questions about meeting information: clerk@middlesexvermont.org or (802) 223-5915.

Joining a Meeting on Zoom

Select Board, Planning Commission, public hearings, and Town Meetings https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86303217560 — Meeting ID: 863 0321 7560

All other Town boards, commissions, and committees https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9382718880 — Meeting ID: 938 271 8880

New to Zoom, or having trouble connecting? Call the Town Clerk’s office at (802) 223-5915 and we’ll walk you through it.

Meetings are also recorded and available on the ORCA Media website.

About Town Meetings in Middlesex

Welcome to the Town of Middlesex, where every day we are making positive community change. Like most Vermont towns, Middlesex relies on the dedication of volunteer officials, board and committee members, and neighbors who give their time to keep our community functioning. Town government here is, in the truest sense, a shared endeavor.

We post information about past and upcoming Middlesex board, commission, and committee meetings on this page. Committed to transparency, the Town of Middlesex adheres to Vermont’s Open Meeting Law (1 V.S.A. §§ 310–314), ensuring that government remains accountable to the people. We strive to provide all agendas and meeting materials in a timely manner.

For a calendar of events in and around town, please visit What’s Next Middlesex.

Welcome to Our New Town Administrator

Contact for Liam Abbate: administrator@middlesexvermont.org

Liam Abbate was hired at the last Select Board meeting, and his first day will be September 14. Liam comes to us as an experienced regional transportation planner with the Northeastern Vermont Development Association, and brings skills in municipal governance, planning, and project management.

Welcome, Liam!

Middlesex Declaration of Inclusion

“There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.” — Fred Rogers

“The Town of Middlesex condemns racism and welcomes all persons, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or socioeconomic status, and wants everyone to feel safe and welcome in our community. As a town, we formally condemn all discrimination in all of its forms, commit to fair and equal treatment of everyone in our community, and will strive to ensure all of our actions, policies, and operating procedures reflect this commitment. The Town of Middlesex has and will continue to be a place where individuals can live freely and express their opinions.”

— Middlesex Select Board, April 18, 2023