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.
Toward the end of last summer, the Department of Public Works asked residents, while they were out and about, to breathe deeply. And the DPW further asked, if they smelled the particular methane-and-hydrogen-sulfide aromas that scream “sewer,” to call and report their location. Up until a few years ago, the department received numerous complaints of a sewer smell in a few locations around town. After the town's Waste Water Treatment Plant operators made some changes to its procedures, the odor...
I am voting for Molly Gray for lieutenant governor for many reasons. First of all, I like the fact that Molly went to small rural schools in Newbury and Oxford and went on to graduate from UVM and the Vermont Law School - all Vermont schools. Molly was born and raised on a successful vegetable and dairy farm in Newbury. She thoroughly understands and appreciates rural communities and small rural schools and knows the value of having a small school...
Main Street Arts and the Saxtons River Historical Society conclude their series of Fireside Chats to highlight the area's history on Sunday, Jan. 29, at 5:3o p.m., at the Saxtons River Inn, when the topic will be wool production in Vermont. Putney sheep farmer Betsy MacIsaac will share the joys and challenges of raising colored Merino and CVM/Romeldale sheep on her Crooked Fence Farm in a tradition of wool production that stretches back in Vermont's history to a time when...
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