Clifton

Residents defeated three proposed ordinances and approved another while passing the budget and electing town officials during Saturday’s annual town meeting.

A noise ordinance, a shore-land zoning ordinance and a building site plan review ordinance all were defeated.

A planning board change was approved. The change places a limit on the number of meetings a planning board member can miss and restricts municipal officers from serving on the panel, which was allowed under the former ordinance passed in 1975. A copy of the complete updated ordinance is available at Clifton town hall for review.

Resident Lorin LeCleire won a three-year seat on the Board of Selectmen, defeating incumbent Brian Melvin, and resident Frances Peasley, a write-in candidate, will fill the remaining one-year term of Robert DeChaine, who died in January.

Resident Linda Goodrich, the lone candidate, was elected to a three-year SAD 63 board seat.

All of the budget items on the warrant passed, with only the winter road maintenance amount changing with a $10,000 increase to $60,000.

The town’s budget includes $118,387 for expenses, administrative salaries and town office expenses; $17,100 for professional services; $21,250 for fire hydrants, streetlights and fire protection through neighboring Eddington; $40,000 for general road maintenance; $64,293 for waste disposal; and $6,080 in general assistance and club-organization allocations. (Nok-Noi Hauger, BDN)

Bradford

Residents voted during Saturday’s annual town meeting to sell the town hall and move into the new community building.

Town operations are expected to make the move in late May or early June, Town Manager Dan Philbrick said. The town will work with a real estate agent to sell the town hall in June or July, he said.

The 88 residents in attendance passed articles on the warrant, which resulted in a town budget of $1,115,932.71. The town also will change its form of government from a three-person Board of Selectmen to a five-person board. The two additional selectmen positions created by this change will be filled in a June election, Philbrick said.

Tom Kirlin was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Selectmen and former Selectman Doug Smith was elected to the SAD 64 board by write-in votes. (Toni-Lynn Robbins, BDN)

Dixmont

The town meeting drew 68 residents to the Etna-Dixmont School on Saturday.

Voters passed the $463,955.34 budget and approved an article that will allow selectmen to draft an ordinance limiting areas in town where sex offenders can live.

Also at the meeting, state Sen. Debra Plowman and Rep. Brian Duprey presented the town with a U.S. flag flown over the State House on Feb. 28, the date of the town’s bicentennial. (Toni-Lynn Robbins, BDN)

Hudson

Town elections will be held from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 23, at the town hall. The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 24, also at the town hall.

Voters will elect three selectmen for two-year terms and one SAD 64 director for a three-year term.

Running for selectmen are three incumbents: Donald Grant, Hollis “Tim” Moores II and Alfonzo Tamburo, as well as one newcomer, Cheryl Brown. Running uncontested for the SAD 64 director position is incumbent Tyler Grant.

The largest issue on the warrant is the appropriation of $50,000 for the expansion of the town hall. The town already has set aside $100,000 for the project. Another article will ask voters to permit the selectmen to borrow up to $350,000 for the expansion. (Toni-Lynn Robbins, BDN)