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Fredonia increases village tax levy 14.2% Fredonia - On a 5-2 vote, with the current and former village presidents voting no, the Village Board has approved a 2006 budget that includes a nearly 14.2% property tax levy increase. The levy will rise from $579,549 to $661,598, Village Clerk / Treasurer Jo Ann Wagner said. Before passing the budget after a hearing Thursday night, the board reduced the levy by $15,000. The board decided not to construct a second soccer field next year in the southwestern corner of the village. As a result of the levy increase, the property tax rate...

Since the Governor's veto of last session's Republican property tax freeze, combined county and school tax levies jumped $404.2 million. Click here to go to map. Dave Zien

Assemblyman criticizes Panzer fund-raising letter By STEVEN WALTERS swalters@journalsentinel.com Posted: Aug. 13, 2004Madison - Another Assembly member who represents the same area as Senate Majority Leader Mary Panzer (R-West Bend) on Friday endorsed Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman, her Sept. 14 primary opponent. In a statement, Rep. Mark Gottlieb (R-Port Washington) said he was moved to back Grothman because of an Aug. 10 fund-raising letter Panzer wrote - a letter Gottlieb said was full of "innuendo, half-truth and false charges." In that letter, Panzer said "outside special interests" are funding and advising Grothman. She also took credit for trying to...

County adopts tax freeze for senior citizens Disabled also to get break on property levy BY JOHN REYNOLDS AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Elderly and disabled homeowners will soon be eligible for a break in their county taxes following the Lubbock County commissioners' decision Monday to freeze the groups' property taxes. The vote, which passed unanimously, follows voters' passage last fall of state Proposition 13, which authorized local governments to freeze taxes paid by the two groups. Until then, a tax freeze for homeowners 65 or over ap plied only to school taxes. The average household savings should amount to about $41 per year,...