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A big drop in Chelsea’s Common Level of Appraisal (CLA) will turn an apparent tax reduction into a tax increase next year betting site in tanzania, officials said this
week.
In an effort to help taxpayers understand the likely tax increase, members of the school board and selectboard have planned two informational meetings prior to Town Meeting to explain the effect of the CLA, which fell from 87.58% to 76.40%.
The Bethel Selectboard stirred controversy—and the direct intervention of Secretary of State Deb Markowitz—last Monday when it refused to place an article about Iraq on the Town Meeting ballot.
The article had been petitioned lawfully, but international relations are was not something the Town of Bethel had betting company any authority over,
the board reasoned.
However, on Tuesday of this week, the Board held a special meeting to place the item on the warned agenda after all.
"It's a 71-year tradition that is just as much a part of January in Vermont as sub-zero temperatures and skiing. The Vermont Farm Show kicked off its 71st edition on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at the Barre Civic Center betting companies."
"A Marine reservist from Albany who had his seminary studies interrupted for duty in Iraq is dead following a roadside attack."
"A key committee of the Vermont Senate has unanimously recommended a bill that would tie raises in the state's minimum wage
to inflation.
"The Vermont Legislature is beginning to look for ways to implement suggestions that will help ease prison overcrowding.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering bills that would allow graduated penalties for people who violate conditions of release and change the way prison inmates can get time off for good behavior."
"If 18-year-olds can vote and fight in Iraq, then they should be able to buy a beer.
That's the reasoning of Vermont state legislator Richard Marron. He says it's totally illogical to allow some adult rights for 18-year-olds, but not others."
"It's no secret Vermont is a popular place for tourists, but a new study suggests the Green Mountain state is more dependent on visitors than most states.
Researchers found that tourists spent $1.5 billion while visiting Vermont in 2003, the most recent year data was available."
"Vermont lawmakers are considering a proposal to remove 2008 as the automatic expiration date for local option taxes and giving communities the option of making them permanent."
Governor Jim Douglas today announced substance abuse prevention grants totaling $19,600 to seven Vermont community organizations.
Out in the woods, furniture makers are a cut above
Driving south on Route 7 toward Danby, there is a point where the mountains soar up on both sides of the road and you peer out over miles of forest. Trees, trees, and more trees, as far as the eye can see.
By coincidence, this is where Vermont's largest concentration of master furniture makers have set down roots. Not small manufacturers of the Pompanoosuc Mills or Charles Shackleton class, but studio artists, working alone or with a few assistants at most, turning out not hundreds, but 20, maybe 30 pieces per year."
A Douglas administration official on Tuesday told lawmakers that they cannot participate in direct negotiations with the federal government about a new system to pay for Medicaid, a state health-care program for the poor that faces a $78 million deficit next fiscal year.
"A key Senate committee on Tuesday rejected the idea of raising Vermont's minimum wage from $7 per hour to $8, but is moving ahead with a proposal to attach an automatic cost-of-living increase to the wage in future years."
