Six bogus Front Porch Forum accounts used to promote pro-merger content.

The recount of two March ballot items took most of the day on Monday, March 8th. By 4 pm, it appeared Haney had emerged as the victor, as did Merger, by dozens of votes, reversing Tuesday’s outcome from the polls ... until BCA Chair Dawn Hill-Fleury went into sleuthing mode.

Weeks before this month’s vote on merger with its tax repercussions, Town staff encouraged the Economic Development Commission to study a Local Option Tax: how it might be implemented and spent, and what effects, if any, might there be on local businesses.