Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
03-03-2021, 10:46 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,807
Skew ?
That's the point. If it is important to you, you show up and vote, and bring friends to vote. If it is less important, as Flying Scot suggests, you don't show up, for whatever reason, work,...
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
03-03-2021, 06:35 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,807
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
03-03-2021, 06:30 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,807
We now have too many people, although years ago...
We now have too many people, although years ago we had 4,000 people at one meeting, three gyms all connected with big TV and audio. In the "old" days the Girl Scouts provided babysitting. As things...
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
03-03-2021, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,807
Volunteers
Newbies and non-residents may not realize it, but we're only about 25 years removed from"traditional" town meetings where you had to be there on the second Tuesday in March and spend 3-4 hours in the...
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
03-01-2021, 06:04 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,807
history
The OP posted "I suspect the town needs more income to operate, hence the review "
50 years ago, Selectmen were the Board of Assessors. They still are. But 50 years ago some selectmen were accused...
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Forum: Home, Cottage or Land Maintenance
02-22-2021, 10:12 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 10,807
Assess vs appraise vs tax rate
I continue to be amazed by the apparent widespread misconception that assessors have anything to do with setting the tax rate or the level of community spending. That's up to the voters. If you...
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