Charleston

Fifty-three articles will need the attention of residents at the annual town meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 11.

The meeting will be in the former elementary school which will soon become home to the town office. Residents will be asked to elect a selectman, a school board director, three assessors and three overseers of the poor.

Among the recommendations by the budget committee are to appropriate or raise $6,750 for assessing; $2,500 for the public library; $6,500 for general assistance; $18,000 for the final payment on the revaluation of the town; and $17,200 for solid waste management. Selectmen and the budget committee have recommended that no funds be appropriated to help secure a septic disposal site.

Ripley

Tom Dyson was elected selectman during Ripley’s annual town meeting on Saturday.

Dyson will fill the position vacated by Rodney Farrar who resigned. Also elected was John Parola to the SAD 46 board.

About 40 people attended the meeting when $5,000 was approved to finish the repair of the Town Hall roof. Support also was given for a fire protection contract with the Dexter Fire Department. Vernal Sinclair, town clerk and tax collector, said the contract increased from $5,000 to $10,000 this year.