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Landowners who lease their land to gas companies aren’t always pleased with the results.
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The Lusk fracking facility in Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.
When I first met George Hagemeyer in 2013, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation was in the process of drilling six natural gas wells in his backyard. America is the only country in the world where property rights commonly extend almost limitlessly beneath the surface, and George had leased his subsurface estate in the hopes of striking it rich in the fracking lottery. As a 150-foot-tall rig pounded segments of steel pipe into the earth, I asked George if he thought that anyone else should have any say over his decision to lease his mineral estate. The gas wells, after all, could degrade local air quality and harm his neighbors’ drinking water, and they were contributing to global warming. “Nope,” George responded. “It’s my land. I’ll do as I damn well please.”
Rhody Maker: Wampum Artist and Woodworker Allen Hazard
Hazard maintains the traditions of the Narragansett people with his wampum jewelry and walking sticks.
May 10, 2021
Allen Hazard, owner of the Purple Shell shop at the Fantastic Umbrella Factory in Charlestown, threads a wampum bracelet between his fingers. The beads, which are made from quahog shell, range in color from lilac to deep purple with pale white in between.
“These traditional tubular beads are what people come to see me for,” says Hazard, a member of the Narragansett Indian Tribe. He is widely regarded as an expert on wampum and was featured in a
David Prenatt
SHERMAN At their regular meeting April 14, Sherman Village Board members approved a 2021-22 budget in the amount of $995,553, which includes a tax levy increase of 2.27%, but for most residents, a decrease in their tax bill.
Sherman Mayor Colleen Meeder told board members that, because of a large amount of new value in taxable assessments, most residents should see their tax rate decrease by about 44 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value.
“Unless you have done renovations or had a market adjustment, you will actually see a reduction in your tax bill,” Meeder said.
The overall assessed value throughout the village increased $1,369,156 Meeder said, while the tax levy is being increased by $5,715. At the same time, the tax rate decreased from 10.75 per $1,000 of assessed valuation down to 10.32 per $1,000 of assessed valuation, she said.