May 8, 2007• (0) Comments
Physiologists say that a walker of moderate good health will traverse a gentle two-mile trail in under 45 minutes. That’s provided, of course, that she doesn’t stop to take in the scenery or to idle alongside a murmuring stream, distractions that occur regularly on the new public hiking trail at Natirar, Somerset County’s newest and most spectacular public park.
Investing local tax receipts to improve public education benefits all homeowners in a community, whether they send children to its schools or not.
On the eve of battle, a single stone in my local churchyard reminds us that the residue of war will not be found in the speeches of our leaders, or the geopolitical reality of new maps, but in bleak stones on cold hillsides, far from the places where sons and brothers fall.
Taking building lots off-market through strategic Open Space spending turns out to be “tax smart” municipal thinking.