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Posted 10/10/22

25 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL Oct. 9, 1997 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Most good luck comes from hard work.”—Teacher Dallas Eggers’ advice to students on how to succeed. Eggers had been presented the …

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25 years ago PRESCOTT JOURNAL Oct. 9, 1997 QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “Most good luck comes from hard work.”—Teacher Dallas Eggers’ advice to students on how to succeed. Eggers had been presented the prestigious Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award on Sept. 30.

Oct. 2, 1997

Kiwanis Students of the Week – Junior Breanna Schommer, with favorite subjects including English, choir, and history, being the daughter of Joe Schommer and Deb Shirley.

Sophomore Jeremy Boles, whose favorite subjects were power tech and math, being the son of Jim and Lori Boles. 40 years ago PIERCE COUNTY HERALD Oct. 14, 1982 Coming up in controversy some four decades ago, Trenton township residents showed up angry to a town board meeting over what they deem “unequalized valuations,” asking the town board what they intended to do about it.

Given for an example of an unequal valuation was one resident property, which jumped from $32,000 up to $54,000 even as the land depreciated due to being in a flood plain. “It’s not worth $150 per foot,” the resident said of the land portion ostensibly valued at $11,000. “The 90 by 125-foot lot is not worth $11,000 like the assessor says,” they went on. “Be- cause it’s in the flood plain I’ll have to put in a holding tank if the septic system goes bad. I paid $4,300 for the lot and put in about $350 worth of fill and it sure isn’t worth $11,000.”

Trenton town chairman Donald R. Johnson had the task of explaining that the state assessors went by a book with information from other sales and that by 1986 the parcels had to be valued “at or near 100 percent of market value.” Given that another young man had his property jump from $3,350 to $43,500 on one parcel and valuations deemed “too low” in the Hager Heights area the town had tried to rectify the situation by raising assessments $3,000, drawing criticism from both those who wanted their tax assessments lowered and others who wanted their land value increased. The town assessor had even resigned before coming back to get the job done, Johnson said.

Not everyone was happy with this explanation of the situation, while a board vote by Steve Toms and seconded by Leon Flynn would see a state ovcial come to explain, the meeting taking place in the Prairie View School building.