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Candidate for high bailiffI would like to introduce myself. My name is Claude Weyant. I am running for the position of high bailiff in Windsor County. The high bailiff is an unpaid position. The most important responsibility of high bailiff is to run...
Forum, Dec. 22: Changing NH’s mode of taxation is the solution Published: 12/21/2020 10:00:18 PM Modified: 12/21/2020 10:00:13 PM Changing NH’s mode of taxation is the solution Ramzi Hraibi decries the decision by the Lebanon City Council to not accept the recommendation of Citizens for Sustainable Taxes to lower the municipal tax rate by 20% over the next five years (“City Council ignored concerns about taxes,” Dec. 19). He suggests we need to change council composition in the next election or leave the area. Taxes are the cost to citizens for their quality of life — there is no f...
Lebanon City Council approves annual budget with 2.4% tax increase Modified: 12/17/2020 9:33:40 PM LEBANON — The City Council approved a $61.1 million budget for the coming year that preserves the energy and facilities manager position championed by sustainability advocates that had been in danger of being eliminated. The spending plan will come as a disappointment to those calling for sweeping changes to how Lebanon allocates its tax dollars. Groups proposing that the city to either drastically curtail police spending or cut taxes were equally rebuffed during a roughly 4½-hour meeting Wed...
Jim Kenyon: Tax time triggers a tempest in Lebanon Jim Kenyon. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Modified: 12/12/2020 10:42:51 PM About 230 Lebanon residents have signed a petition calling for the city to “mandate vigorous fiscal restraint going forward in 2021.” In other words, folks are steamed about their rising property tax bills — the second biannual installment for 2020 came due earlier this month — and want the city to start spending less on (fill in the blank). The petitioners argue that if...