DUMMERSTON — DUMMERSTON - The Selectboard set the 2017 municipal tax rate at the July 5 regular Board meeting.
The tax rate is 0.323 percent, giving the town a $850,035.87 budget, with a $1,090.82 buffer.
“When we set the tax rate, we usually set it so we have a little bit of a buffer,” Selectboard Chair Zeke Goodband said.
The Selectboard recently approved a series of decisions - including a rate increase - bringing members closer to replacing the town's pay-to-park system. If all goes as planned, parking will cost more beginning on Feb. 1, 2019, with new meters and kiosks arriving a few weeks prior. At the Oct. 2 regular board meeting, members unanimously - and without major debate on the actionable decisions - voted to begin the process of changing a town ordinance to raise parking rates,
I attended the Guilford Selectboard meeting on Jan. 25 and was disheartened by two articles being proposed for the warning for Town Meeting. In essence, these articles propose dissolving the newly formed Windham Southeast School District. The decision to put these articles on the warnings of every town in the district left me with many questions. Why this sudden rush to throw out a model that has only recently been adopted? The new district has only been in existence for...
Peter Lindenfeld - father of potter, Brattleboro Clayworks co-founder, ceramics teacher and longtime resident Naomi Lindenfeld - will give a virtual reading of his new book, Fragments of Time, presented by independent bookseller Everyone's Books. In a news release, the author said the book traces his life “from a secure childhood in pre-war Vienna to the challenges of emigration, adaptation, and pursuits in science and in educational and social change.” However, Lindenfeld said he has tried to make the book...
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