Times Past: Feb. 23, 2021
Published: 2/24/2021 2:42:28 PM
Modified: 2/24/2021 2:42:26 PM
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Washington’s Birthday is renowned in the area for the hatchet hunt sponsored by the Athol Fire Department and the Athol Area YMCA. More than 350 area youth with many parents ventured into the Bearsden Woods in search of 50 prizes, the most coveted of which were two engraved hatchets. Winners of the hatchets in the 74th hunt were Adam Richard, 13, of Phillipston, who found the Washington Hatchet and Emily Webster, 5½, kindergarten student at Silver Lake School, who found the “Johnnie” Johnstone Hatchet.
■After a short reprieve from winter weather, winter-weary North Quabbin residents awoke to a new blanket of snow. The snow was greeted with somewhat less than enthusiasm by most folks who are hoping for the first signs of spring. To add insult to injury, weather forecasters are predicting another storm with estimates of three to five more inches of the wet white stuff being dump
Estimated Useful Lives of Depreciable Lodging Assets
Aircraft & watercraft, buildings & structures, exterior improvements, motorized vehicles, lawncare, communications, agriculture and furniture fixtures & equipment are just a few of the asset classes analyzed within this guide. Viewed in the broadest terms, this guide is a tool to assist in the calculation of estimated remaining useful lives of tangible assets. This guide not only estimates the high / low life range of over 5,000 fixed and movable assets but also address, what the Author refers to as the Lodging Dilemma , the reality that better quality assets may have a shorter estimated useful life then lesser quality assets when analyzing the various property types within the Lodging industry.