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Valley News - Valley News Forum for Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023: Hanover zoning nightmare

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Valley News - Hanover, Lebanon and Hartford firefighters step up donations of toys for holiday joy

WEST LEBANON Anticipating a greater budgetary strain on families this holiday season, Upper Valley firefighters upped their contributions this year to area toy drives, resulting in over $2,500 in toy donations to local children.On Friday,.

Valley News - Forum, July 10: Proposed Hanover budget balances need for services with needs of taxpayers

Forum, July 10: Proposed Hanover budget balances need for services with needs of taxpayers Published: 7/9/2021 9:59:56 PM Modified: 7/9/2021 10:00:06 PM Proposed Hanover budget balances need for services with needs of taxpayers At the business portion of Hanover’s Town Meeting on Tuesday, voters will face a bevy of appropriations-related warrant articles, $30.6 million in total, for fiscal year 2022. After revenues, the levy to taxpayers is $14.1 million. Tax rates, incorporating the Fire Fund, would increase just under 3% (17 cents on a base of $5.92 per assessed value of $1,000 prior to the increase). The Hanover Finance Committee voted unanimously on March 8 to support the town budget. In setting the budget, the town faced significant, mostly externally driven, revenue and cost pressures: Multiple revenue streams were impacted by COVID-19 totaling more than $450,000 an amount equal to 19 cents on the tax rate; cost drivers included a nearly $200,000 increase in required

Valley News - Volunteer spotlight: Support for Toys for Tots keeps coming, even in the pandemic economy

Volunteer spotlight: Support for Toys for Tots keeps coming, even in the pandemic economy Modified: 12/19/2020 10:03:23 PM At first, Steve Smith was a little worried about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on his radio station’s annual Toys for Tots toy drive. “I had no idea what to expect,” said Smith, general manager at WCNL Country in Newport, citing the downturn in the economy and more people being out of work. At the end of the three-day drive, which took place in early December, people had donated 1,132 toys and $5,900 in cash. “People you wouldn’t expect to hand over $100 bills would just walk up and say, ‘Here you go,’ ” Smith recalled. “When things get down, people step up, and that’s one of the things I like so much about the Newport area: that essence of kinship and community is incredible.”