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Gashen trustees back sales tax for Mahoning county, township roads | News, Sports, Jobs

khowell@salemnews.net GOSHEN TOWNSHIP – Trustees Monday night expressed support for a proposed additional sales tax to generate funds for road maintenance. Trustees passed a resolution in support of the proposed .25 percent additional sales tax for the Mahoning County Engineer’s Office that would generate $8 million. That money would be split evenly between the county and the townships, with $4 million going to the engineer’s office to fix county roadways and $4 million shared among the townships based on road mileage. Trustee Shawn Mesler said under the proposal, Goshen Township would receive $147,000. “I think this is a good thing,” Mesler said. “I believe the residents should have a say (in how their tax dollars are spent), and this gives them the vote. If approved, it would allow money for the county to fix county roads in the township and the township to fix our own roads.”

New trustee appointed in Fredonia, two others fail to get nod | News, Sports, Jobs

OBSERVER Photo by Jo Ward Fredonia Village Hall. Scott Johnston has been appointed to one of the two vacant seats on the Fredonia Board of Trustees Monday at the regular board meeting. “I’d like to make a motion that we hold a vote on the prospective people we have for the two vacant seats on the board of trustees,” Trustee James Lynden started as he opened up discussion for the filling of these positions. “There are four people who have expressed interest. We had one vote at a previous meeting that did not pass. There’s three other people who have expressed interest, they all have qualifications, some more than others.”

EDITORIAL: More local control may hedge against oppression

“All politics is local,” implored former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Town leaders in Monument, a bedroom community for Denver and Colorado Springs, don’t want to lose businesses to the state’s on-again-off-again COVID-19 shutdowns. In Monument, when a business owner struggles or goes under it means a friend and neighbor in peril. “The person we see at the grocery store is the person we see two tables down at the restaurant, in church, or at Walmart,” said Mayor Don Wilson. “A law that causes social separation in Denver or LA does not work in a town like this.”

Colorado Springs Gazette: More local control may hedge against oppression

“All politics is local,” implored former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. Town leaders in Monument, a bedroom community for Denver and Colorado Springs, don’t want to lose businesses to the state’s on-again-off-again COVID-19 shutdowns. In Monument, when a business owner struggles or goes under it means a friend and neighbor in peril. “The person we see at the grocery store is the person we see two tables down at the restaurant, in church, or at Walmart,” said Mayor Don Wilson. “A law that causes social separation in Denver or LA does not work in a town like this.”

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