Garland

Residents will be asked at the annual town meeting on March 10 if they favor SAD 46’s plan to close local elementary schools and to construct a new prekindergarten-through-eighth-grade school.

The annual town meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Grange Hall.

The school vote will be nonbinding because a districtwide referendum is scheduled on the school plan later this month. Residents Mary Adams, Jim Bunn and Melvin Johnson felt that residents should make a formal statement of opinion on the proposal.

Residents also will discuss whether to accept the transfer of the Garland Elementary School if SAD 46 offers it to the town at some future date.

Among the 39-article warrant items: a request to appropriate $65,000 to add a well at the garage and to repair the garage roof.

Since Selectmen Karen Buzzell and David Wyman resigned, residents will need to elect their replacements. In addition, a town clerk, an assessor, a cemetery perpetual care trustee and a school board director will need to be elected.

Milo

A request to raise $10,000 for the Milo Historical Society to help with roof replacement costs will need voter action at the annual town meeting 7 p.m. Monday, March 12, in the town hall.

Both the Board of Selectmen and the budget committee have recommended that the funds be approved.

In the 27-article warrant, residents will be asked to increase the property tax level established for the town by state statute in the event the 2007 budget results in a tax commitment greater than the tax level limit.

A secret ballot will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. when residents will elect two selectmen for three-year terms, two SAD 41 directors for three-year terms and one SAD 41 director for a two-year term.