A house in Mad River Valley uses towering tree trunks as a key structural element.

The two governing bodies came to a head Thursday morning at a budget hearing slated to discuss the divisions’ proposed $914 million fiscal year 2026 budget.

Mary Aly has lived in the small cottage community of Schure’s Acres in the north end of Howell for 21 years. Now she’s being forced to leave. “We have nowhere to go,” Aly said, who currently resides ...