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What a great job! Can't wait to see it in person

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So am I reading into this or is what is stated here is that every time we pass our budget, Montpelier thinks we are all wealthy & just raises our property taxes?  For those of us that feel we are being taxed to the max now, are you saying we need to vote down our budget?  I have always said that all these "pennies to the dollar" we are frequently told during explanations at budget times,  for several different things really add up to lots of dollars to our dollars!

Very cool!! Thankyou!!

I'd like to thank Bob, Bev and the Greenia family for their generous contribution to our town.

I introduced Bob & Bev Greenia to the Selectboard with a brief background of the project







Bob explained some to the things he did to make the bridge as authentic as possible

Yum! I will definitely be there!

from Fairfax Representative John Mitchell:
The legislative session ended on Tuesday may 14 late in the night.  As is usually the case the final days were quite interesting in that attempts were made to either save items or scuttle them.  When the session ended it was with the passing of a General Fund Budget with a 4% increase over last year.  It certainly is not a perfect budget, but it is a long ways from what the Governor proposed and what either body had voted out.  While we are not faced with new taxes on items such as soda, candy, bottled water,etc. there are many concerns about this budget.  It represents funding for 62 new state positions and uses $55 million in one time money to balance it.
We had the chance this year to send a clear message to our growing hi-tech industry showing that we value their business and want to encourage its' growth.  However, the majority sent the exact opposite message by instituting a sales tax on cloud computing services.  Not a good position for Vermont or our embryonic tech business.
Our property taxes continue to rise with a residential increase of 5 cents and non-residential of 6 cents.  It is likely increases will be at least that much for next year.  The education funding system is broken and needs to be revised but the administration and the legislature seem unconcerned and refuse to address the problem.  Local school budgets are what drives our property taxes and Act 60/68 is not workable any longer.  We need to change our system.
The legislature did vote an increase in gasoline taxes in order to right the transportation fund and to capture $56 million in federal funds.  I did not vote in favor of that, but I am very aware of the need.
 On January 1, 2014 The Vermont Health Exchange will be in operation for many folks for health insurance coverage.  A good source for information is Vermonthealthconnect.com.
There were many other items of interest that transpired this session; too many to write about here.  As always if you have questions or concerns please contact me at 802-735-3900, 849-6284 or email jmitchell@leg.state.vt.us.  John Mitchell

Should I be afraid of them? A lot of times I am out on my rider mower.....I've seen one cross my yard by the river..I yelled out "HEY! "..he looked at me, then kept a cantor run.  Sometimes I'm nervous to be near the wooded. Line when I'm on the mower. Do they attack people?

Really, it could be an amazing experience to host two young people from China for 2 weeks!  Just contact me via this site or pastorliz@earthlink.net