Sidedish: Milwaukee Wine Festival joins lakefront scene (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
A new festival is joining the lakefront scene, and this one won’t be all about the beer. |
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Experts to explain skyrocketing property taxes in Glencoe (Glencoe News)
One of State Rep. Karen May's (D-58th) constituents told her that his or her property taxes had increased 300 percent since last year. |
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Lake Bluff set to meet with judge about Armenian Church in mansion (Lake Forester)
The village of Lake Bluff will meet with a judge for the Illinois Department of Revenue on July 31 to appeal the state's decision to grant a property tax exemption to George Michael, who converted his lakefront mansion into the Armenian Church of Lake Bluff. |
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Group to discuss controversial lakefront district (St. Charles Journal)
A committee will meet Thursday to discuss a controversial development district in Lake Saint Louis. |
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Work at lakefront drop worries neighbors (Wilmette Life)
When Donna Harper steps out onto the backyard of her Sheridan Road home in Winnetka, she sees a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. To the south is her neighbor's home, which also sits atop the ridge. But it's what Harper sees to the north that worries her. The otherwise uninterrupted bluff drops sharply to beach level, where Harper's neighbor is building a home. |
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EPA advances $12.7M plan to detox OMC site Industrial solvent TCE menaces water supply (Lake County News-Sun)
WAUKEGAN -- Back in the summer of 2006, as heavy equipment tore down most of the former Outboard Marine Corp.'s headquarters on Seahorse Drive, an engineering consultant warned that some areas of the property were going to need more than a bulldozer to clean up. |
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Tennessee: Cabin owners fight Polk tax (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
A group of people who own lakefront and forest cabins on leased land in the Cherokee National Forest is suing Polk County for trying to tax them on land they don’t own. |
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Trees stay, arborist tells lakeshore homeowner (The Oregonian)
Lake Oswego has denied developer Jeff Parker's latest application to remove five trees to build a driveway as he finishes construction of his lakefront mansion. |
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Evans residents pack Town Hall to argue against assessments (The Buffalo News)
It was standing-room-only at Evans Town Hall on Wednesday night as more than 100 residents appeared at a Town Board meeting dominated by discussion on the past year's property assessments. |
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Council sees model of Canandaigua lakefront plan (Canandaigua Daily Messenger)
Backers of the plan, and some curious residents, attended last night’s meeting. |
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