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Finger pointing, fisticuffs (almost) and few answers at Freedom tax forum
Freedom residents wondering how their taxes could have gone up this year despite a new $10 million wind development crowded into the Dirigo Grange Hall Sept. 30 expecting to have questions answered by an official from the Property Tax Division of the Maine Revenue Service. But the official never turned up, and the meeting that followed was fraught with speculation, suspicion and accusations, mostly to do with the wind turbines.
October 5, 2009
by Ethan Andrews
in The Village Soup
FREEDOM -- Freedom residents wondering how their taxes could have gone up this year despite a new $10 million wind development crowded into the Dirigo Grange Hall Sept. 30 expecting to have questions answered by an official from the Property Tax Division of the Maine Revenue Service. But the official never turned up, and the meeting that followed was fraught with speculation, suspicion and accusations, mostly to do with the wind turbines.
The three, 400-foot windmills on Beaver Ridge started pumping energy into the grid last November. During the planning stages of the project, wind developer Competitive Energy Services estimated... [continue via Web link]
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