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Hopedale voters to consider temporary tax raise May 22 The Milford Daily News HOPEDALE – With about a week and a half until voters weigh in at Town Meeting, local officials have dramatically lowered a tax override proposal meant to keep departments running. When budgets for Fiscal Year 2022 were first compiled last month, finance officials were looking at a roughly $1.2 million gap between what department heads asked for and what the town could raise. Departments were then asked for major cuts, and officials are now considering asking voters for about $288,000 in raised taxes. The money wou...

NC Highway Maintenance Is Behind and Won’t Catch up Any Time Soon $3.4 billion. That’s how much bad roads and congestion in North Carolina costs its drivers in higher vehicle ownership costs, according to a report commissioned by the North Carolina Department of Transportation. Fixing those roads — as well as repairing and replacing bridges, building new highways and any other large projects the NCDOT has on its schedule — takes money, and lots of it. Steve Abbott, a spokesperson for the NCDOT, said that to bring every bridge in the state to “good” condition would cost $3.8 bill...

“The Board will be supported tremendously if it chooses to follow the will of the Town,” Lurie’s statement said.

Kilkenny 'a leader in how businesses, communities and local authorities can work together' - Chamber president President of Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Colin Ahern speaking at Chamber’s 2021 AGM Reporter: sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie President of Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Colin Ahern welcomed businesses to the Chamber’s recent 2021 AGM ');  '); President of Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce Colin Ahern welcomed businesses to the Chamber’s recent 2021 AGM, the second such AGM to be held online.  Mr Ahern, Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel, was re-elected to his second year as President, and ...

Hopedale fire chief pitches plan to double firefighters at no cost to taxpayers The Milford Daily News HOPEDALE — After years of minimal staffing and low budgets, Hopedale’s fire chief said this week that he has found a way to double the town’s number of firefighters at no cost to taxpayers. “The runs are coming in, the staffing isn’t,” Fire Chief Thomas Daige told selectmen this week, referring to emergency calls that need firefighters and EMTs. “You know this, I know this, we’ve been trying to find a way to add staffing.” The chief's solution is called inter-facility trans...