It’s time to TIGHTEN the belt & MAKE SACRIFICES like the rest of us have had to do! Source: \”Public Hearing\” March 30^th where ONLY 20 residents attended Due to the Board of Educations Poor advertising & waiting till the Last Minute.

This year (2009): Superintendent Joe Rafferty will make over $126,000 – Not too bad for his 3rd year on the job! Business Administrator Melissa Raywood will make over $105,000. Together they are set to make $18,845 MORE then they made in 2007!!! Source: www.mtephraimschools.org – Click \”Board of Ed\” – then \”Proposed Budget For 2009-2010 School Year\” (at Bottom of Page)

Neighboring Brooklawn has NOT increased School Taxes for 8 Years In A Row! Why cant we do the same??? Source: Gloucester City News – April 9, 2009

Have Budget Questions??? Call the Mount Ephraim Board of Education at 931-4134.

Voice Your Opinion at the MAYOR & BOARD OF COMMISIONERS MEETING held the first Thursday of the month; MAY 7, 2009 at 8:00 PM at the Borough Hall. RESIDENTS NEED TO ATTEND & let Your Elected Officials know that you DO NOT want YOUR TAXES going up AGAIN! THEY HAVE THE FINAL SAY & ONLY WE can Put the Pressure on them to MAKE THEM do this!

Once the Budget is Voted Down, the Commissioners make the determination on what they want the Board of Ed to do on behalf of the residents. Also at this meeting the Commissioners will be introducing the Proposed Municipal Budget for 2009 – a 10 cents increase is proposed. That\’s an additional average tax increase of $98.00 up to $214.00 (depending upon your homes assessment) for the year. We can NOT & will NOT do both! Times Are Tough & Enough Is Enough!

Signed:

A Mount Ephraim Resident Against Tax Increases

I live in Gloucester City New Jersey now.

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ASHLAND, Ohio — Just when livestock producers are finding ways to clear the murky waters of low commodity prices and high input prices, comes another deluge of challenges in the form of steep funding cuts to the Ohio State University Extension and assaults from theHumane Society of the United States.

Producers are being targeted by groups determined to either change the way animal agriculture does business or put it out of business altogether, according to John Fitzpatrick, organization director for Ashland/Medina/Wayne County Farm Bureaus.

Following a preview of a multimedia presentation, Veal Calves and Cull Cows, Fitzpatrick told producers and industry representatives attending the Ashland County Cattlemen’s annual meeting that the Humane Society of the United States has targeted Ohio as their next state to pass legislation similar to Proposition 2 that was passed in California. Fitzpatrick told the cattlemen that the HSUS is not connected with the local humane society in any way. What you can do