Attorney threatening legal action regarding petitions, assessment worksheets
One is a bit of a fishing expedition. The other is basic First Amendment rights. And in Francis Chester’s hands, both are ticking time bombs aimed at March 11.
The Churchville attorney was at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona Tuesday afternoon to hand-deliver letters to county administrator Patrick Coffield and commissioner of the revenue Jean Shrewsbury related to the ongoing fight against the 2009 county property reassessment. Continue reading “Attorney threatening legal action regarding petitions, assessment worksheets” »
An obvious solution to the assessment controversy in Augusta
I reached out my hand to Arlie Wolfe. “How does it feel to be a millionaire?” I asked the Middlebrook man, who, for the record, isn’t really a millionaire, no matter what the piece of paper his wife, Joan, had in her purse had to say about the matter.
Arlie and Joan had bought their 400-acre farm property that backs into a mountain in the middle of Augusta County 10 years ago for $167,000. It was reassessed four years ago for $585,000. The piece of paper in Joan’s purse has it at over $1.6 million. Continue reading “An obvious solution to the assessment controversy in Augusta” »
