While issues continue to impact Hempfield’s volunteer fire service, years of initiatives and efforts to reform the department are starting to pay off after officials received an improved rating from a national assessment company. The review by New Jersey-based Insurance Services Office Inc., or ISO, reflects fire protection services within
Jan. 23 While issues continue to impact Hempfield's volunteer fire service, years of initiatives and efforts to reform the department are starting to pay off after officials received an improved rating from a national assessment company. The review by New Jersey- based Insurance Services Office Inc., or ISO, reflects fire protection services within a.
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Greater Latrobe School Board next week will consider final approval of a proposed 2021-22 budget, including a 1.17% increase in spending and a 1-mill property tax hike meant to cover a projected revenue shortfall of $345,000.
On Tuesday, the board also will look to renew district insurance coverages, with an overall 2% increase in premiums.
The proposed tax hike, to 85 mills, would add $27 to the average homeowner’s annual tax bill, according to district Business Administrator Dan Watson.
He said the district trimmed expenses where possible and recommended against trying to balance the $57.7 million budget without the tax increase. “I don’t think that would be responsible to our taxpayers,” Watson said.
We are all used to the way novelists, cartoonists, animators, satirists and essayists have used animal characters to portray supposedly human attributes or as stand-ins for human failings, in order to deliver their messages or even just to entertain us as animals were anthropomorphised for our edification.
Former US president Donald Trump embraces the US flag after speaking to the 47th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in 2020. (Photo: EPA-EFE / Erik S. Lesser)
From Aesop’s time onward we have been introduced to foxes who forswear grapes as likely to be too sour because they are too high to reach. Or, perhaps we encountered Anansi the Spider and the New World offshoot, Brer Rabbit, or maybe it was Reynard the Fox’s tales from Medieval Europe that merged with the traditional Khoisan tales of a prankster jackal in southern Africa in order to create the local version of an animal anti-hero. George Orwell, of course, gave us that unforgettable collection of crea