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PRO & CON – At last week’s informational meeting on the proposed school levies, it was clear that good friends don’t have to always agree. Farmer and former school board member Dave Hedlin, center, supports the levy requests. Seated next to him is Dave Buchan, who wrote the guest editorial against the levies in last week’s paper, and Buchan’s wife, Susan Macek, director of the La Conner Library Foundation. – Photo by Don Coyote
About 50 people gathered at Maple Hall last week to hear La Conner Schools officials make the case for passing two levies totaling nearly $1.5 million in next month’s election.
School officials have scheduled another meeting for today at 7 p.m. at the Shelter Bay clubhouse. Most of the voters in Shelter Bay live on land that cannot be taxed by the school district.
But on the La Conner side of the Swinomish Channel, where voters still pay school taxes, several people stood up at last week’s meeting to voice their frustration with the tax shift initiated by a federal court’s now locally infamous...
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