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County Commissioners deliver nearly flat budget for 2022
June 03, 2021HAVERHILL Despite COVID-related revenue losses and several challenging increases passed down from the State, the Grafton County Commissioners announced a nearly level-funded budget for 2022 during a public hearing last week.
The overall 2022 budget came to $48,672,519, reflecting a minor increase of 0.30 percent, or $145,209. from fiscal year 2021. Similarly, the amount to be raised by taxes increased by only 0.56 percent, or $151,826.
According to Grafton County Finance Manager Julie Libby, several cuts were made to deliver the relatively flat budget during a global pandemic. Two significant and unexpected expense increases came from the state retirement system and the County s contribution for long-term care expenses, she said.
Labor solidarity with Palestine On May 18, a general strike of Palestinian workers was held to protest the killing of civilians in Gaza, the displacement of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood and the attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli Defense Forces. The strike helped to pressure…
Editor’s Note: The following is a statement by Labor for Palestine.
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As workers, labor, and anti-apartheid activists, we join millions around the world to unequivocally condemn Israel’s genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people: mass evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan neighborhoods of Jerusalem, storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, waves of state-sponsored violence throughout the West Bank and the ’48 areas (stolen from Palestine in 1948), and merciless bombardment of Gaza that has already killed and wounded hundreds of people, many of them children.
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