Haverstraw Fire District could raise taxes 10%

Plans were scrapped and committee’s were disbanded after estimates found the cost of a proposed Village Fire District to be ‘way too high’. It’s also a safe bet that a referendum would be defeated anyway, even if it cost the taxpayer less in the long run. That’s OK, so they say.

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