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Jan 22, 2021 The 2020 real estate market was bustling in the North Country, in large part because of the coronavirus pandemic. There were fewer homes for sale overall, and they were getting snatched up quickly, at or above asking price, says Michael Coughlin, who directs several boards of realtors in the Adirondacks and the Champlain Valley.
“People wanted to get out of the urban areas because they perceived us as being safe; or at least, safer than where they were.”
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Access to the outdoors was a huge selling point, as well, he says.
Judge rules against McHenry Township Highway Commissioner s challenge against huge tax levy cuts
Updated 12/22/2020 11:34 AM
A judge ruled against McHenry Township Highway Commissioner Jim Condon in a lawsuit Monday brought against the local government s trustees over their decision to cut road district property tax levies by about 30% this month.
With the decision by 22nd Judicial Circuit Associate Judge Kevin G. Costello, the township road district s total tax levy of $2,095,000 approved by the trustees will for now remain below the $3 million levy Condon originally sought.
The highway commissioner filed the lawsuit against the township s board of trustees last week after a motion to pass a levy far smaller than Condon s $3 million proposal carried 3-1 with the support of Trustees Bob Anderson, Steve Verr and Mike Rakestraw, the same trio that denied McHenry Township Supervisor Craig Adams from participating in the same meeting remotely despite a diagnosis of