The assessment process, which is part of the property tax cycle, is one of the most misunderstood processes. I hope this article will help alleviate those misunderstandings.
The property tax …
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by Laura Edmonds, Chief County Assessment Officer
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8/29/23
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A few years ago, a young woman asked me if I wished I could relive my life and do it better.
“The truth is,” I told her, “I rather like just where I am. This is …
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by Lynn Werner
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7/5/23
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I made a mistake today. Usually, I avoid reading comments on Facebook. Today, I looked. What was I thinking?
Call me quirky, but I like to believe in the greater good of humanity. Facebook …
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by Mike Jones
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8/29/23
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Oh, sure, our duo of intrepid Gazette correspondents could have witnessed the solar eclipse in Mexico, Canada or New England.
But with The Totality (more on that later) occurring along a …
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by Mike Jones
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4/16/24
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S ometimes, when the world seems dark and the search for understanding is difficult, a ray of sunlight suddenly appears showing a way forward or signals an opportunity for hope, healing and …
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by P. Carter Newton
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3/28/23
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“It all started with a farm boy from the prairies of central Illinois,” noted ecologist John White said when referring to Dr. H. A. Gleason, one of the first significant prairie …
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by Lynn Werner
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11/15/22
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In the entire array of veterans’ photos in last week’s “A Salute to Our Veterans”–36 pages–there is one Black face from WWII: Beauford Clark Johnson’s. His …
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by Mike Jones
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11/15/22
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I have fallen in love with the mussel bound! Who’d have thought that would happen at my age?
How astonishing to discover the pearly inner surface of a shell that may appear utterly plain as …
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by Lynn Werner
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3/7/23
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It’s 2024, a new year. A time when people take a look at their lives, figure out what they want to change and typically abandon those goals by February. For example, someone can aspire to be …
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by Murphy Obershaw
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1/2/24
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