By Ginger KozlowskiIt may not hold any legal power, but 78 citizens are asking the Candia Board of Selectmen and School Board to help them pay their taxes by keeping the property tax rate from increasing. A petition-like form was sent around town in early November and was available in several businesses. It said: “To: “Candia ...

By Kathleen Bailey The Department of Revenue Administration has set Epsom’s tax rate for 2009. Residents can expect to see an increase of 39 cents per $1,000, in a year where the town portion of the bill went up and the school portion went down. Epsom’s current rate is $17.35 per $1,000 of taxable property. It breaks down into $2.60, ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSTo keep a promise made to voters last March, Salem selectmen will dip deeper into the town’s unreserved balance rather than raise taxes in December. But higher town taxes will be unavoidable in 2010. The decision came Oct. 19 after Town Manager Jonathan Sistare presented options to the board: use reserves to maintain a ...

Remarkable! That is the word most accurately attributable to the opinions composed by the two Bishops in the Manchester Union Leader regarding the "Healthcare Reform" legislation being considered. I must offer these remarks. The first Bishop claims that there are no Christian voices being raised. Perhaps his definition of Christian is ...

BY GINGER KOZLOWSKIBedford homeowners will soon be getting their property tax bills in the mail, and can expect to pay an average of $152 more than last year. Town Manager Russ Marcoux said bills will be in the mail by Nov. 1 and due on Dec. 1. The new rate of $19.33 per $1,000 of property value is 38 cents higher than last year’s rate of ...

BY JILLIAN JORGENSENThe town manager presented a $22,410,681 budget to the Town Council on Oct. 14, meeting the Town Council’s guidance of no more than a 2 percent increase over the town’s portion of the 2009 municipal tax rate. The town tax rate for 2010 in Town Manager Russell Marcoux’s proposed budget is $4.13 per $1,000 in ...

  I met with a tax assessor from the Town of Pembroke regarding my recent property tax valuation increase. [See my previous rant about that if you haven’t already]  When I arrived at the Town Hall, it was immediately clear that I was not alone in questioning the Town’s numbers and/or their effect on my wallet – ...

  At the beginning of September, I received a letter from the Town of Pembroke informing me of an increase in the valuation of my property.  A 17% increase in value.  I noted that their appraisal occurred in April of 2009.  The previous assessment appraisal occurred when my building was converted from apartments into ...

By STEPHEN BEALEThe Town Council set its goals and priorities for the upcoming year in a retreat held at the town offices May 6. At the retreat, Town Manager Russ Marcoux warned the town and school district could be facing an annual $4 million hit to their budgets from lost state revenues and increased costs in the statewide retirement ...

BY DERRICK PERKINSLooking between a projected budget shortfall of nearly $400,000 and hopes of keeping the tax rate flat this year, at least one selectman is keeping the possibility of layoffs on the table. Gov. John Lynch may have backed away from a budget proposal that would have cut state funding to Salem by as much as $1.7 million, but ...