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
Jim Kenyon: Norwich turning a blind eye to lack of police body cameras
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Modified: 4/3/2021 9:33:51 PM
In its infinite wisdom, the Norwich Selectboard has decided for the time being against equipping the town’s police officers with body cameras.
Talk about a lack of vision.
Body cameras are an important tool in the national drive to make law enforcement more accountable and transparent.
Communities and states that fail to equip their police officers with body cameras are “really not being responsible,” said George Ostler, a criminal defense lawyer for nearly 40 years whose office is in Norwich.
‘Hartford Dollars’ program to support local businesses gets a boost of its own
Modified: 12/18/2020 10:07:36 PM
The Byrne Foundation has funded an extension of the “Hartford Dollars” program aimed at shoring up Hartford area restaurants and retail stores, the Hartford Area Chamber of Commerce said.
PJ Skehan, executive director of the Hartford Chamber, said the civic group received $10,000 in funding to continue the financial support for small businesses early next year.
Under the program, the chamber sells coupons that allow buyers to double their purchasing power at local restaurants and stores. The chamber then covers 50% of the purchase on behalf of the business.
Published: 12/13/2020 10:00:15 PM
Modified: 12/13/2020 10:05:15 PM
Thanks to humble mastermind of Thanksgiving meal
Len Angelli, who coordinated the Thanksgiving day meal at Sacred Heart Church in Lebanon, is the mastermind and master chef who organized the logistics of preparing, packaging and delivering 2,070 (count them!) Thanksgiving meals this year to the shut-ins, homebound, sick, poor, forgotten, quarantined and others in our Upper Valley community complete dinners of turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, squash, carrots, gravy, cranberry sauce, rolls, apple pie and assortment of homemade desserts. (“Out & About: Thanksgiving meal programs busy this year,” Nov. 8).
To get a grasp of the magnitude of this undertaking: 130 turkeys, 300 pounds of ham and 10 bushels of apples, just to mention a few of the servings.