The Windsor Way

by Ed Naile Now that the Windsor municipal audit of years 2000 – 2007, also known as “The Missing Years” is officially in in our small Peyton Place it may be time for reflection. Some $350,000.00 is in limbo, missing, uncollected, vaporized, eaten by...

NH School Districts to Feds: Pay Up

PEMBROKE – Several New Hampshire school districts have sent out a bill that they say is way past due. The five districts of SAU 53 recently submitted invoices totaling more than $23 million to the U.S. Department of Education for unfunded special education expenses...

Nice View Proves Costly to Gilsum Homeowner

GILSUM, N.H. — A Gilsum woman said she’s watched her taxes nearly triple in the past five years because of the so-called view tax, a property tax assessment that places a value on the view from her home. Last month, Tina Nicholson’s view of the hills...

Hampton Residents to Get Property Tax Refunds

Thanks to help from CNHT, the taxpayers of Hampton, NH will start looking at their tax cards with a new eye. According to a report from WMUR-TV, the town has granted 124 abatements to Hampton residents. “More than 100 Hampton residents will get refund checks in...

Citizens Must Have Say at Board of Assessors (SB 198)

Senate Bill 198 would have added public members to the assessing standards board and require that the chairperson of the board not be a senator or house of representatives member Bill Text: SB 198 The bill was heard by the Senate Executive Departments and...

Burton and Young on Board With SB 198

Expansion of N.H. Assessing Standard Board debated CONCORD — Adding more general public representation to the 15-member state board that governs New Hampshire’s assessing standards drew area support at the Executive Departments and Administration Committee...