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POTTSVILLE — Schuylkill County property owners will not pay higher county taxes in 2021, as the commissioners on Wednesday adopted next year’s budget of more than $66 million. The spending package keeps the real estate tax at 15.98 mills and the per capita tax at $5, as the commissioners acknowledged the hard times many people face. “This has been a very difficult year,” commissioners Chairman Barron L. Hetherington said. “There’s no big pile of money anywhere.â€...