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Egads! The Property Tax Bill's Due Wednesday!

It's tax-bill time again, and no fun for a lot of reasons.

You're just done with a delightful, three-day Memorial Day weekend, you're trying to get back into the work routine, you've got end-of-the-month stuff on your mind and you haven't turned the calendar over to June yet, where the first thing you'll see marked is ...

PROPERTY TAX BILL DUE!

Yeesh. Yes, it's that delightful time of year in which you drive over to the to drop off a check to cover the first installment of your .

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For a lot of folks, this installment was a shock—and not just because the due date is the first day of June. For many, even though the assessment might have gone down, your might have .

That's pretty much what happened to Paula and me this time around. Our assessment went down about 3 percent but the overall bill went up a few hundred bucks.

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Ah, well. It's for a good cause, right?

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