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Council candidates respond: Did the Town Council make the right decision in February by voting to set a real estate tax rate of 16 cents per $100 in assessed value, up from the 14-cent rate set eight months earlier? Why or why not?
The Smithfield Times will be taking a different approach to Smithfield Town Council candidate questionnaires this year. Rather than sending a list of questions and publishing all questions and responses in the same print edition and online, the Times will send the candidates a single question once per week. There will be 12 questions in […]
IWCS adds attendance incentive to exam policy
Isle of Wight County’s School Board voted unanimously on Sept. 19 to adopt changes to its end-of-course exam exemption policy in hopes of incentivizing middle and high school students to attend class. The division has long allowed an end-of-course exam exemption for high school students who maintain a B-minus or higher grade by the date […]
Promontory, St. Luke’s developments could reach Planning Commission by early 2025
Smithfield’s Planning Commission could, by early next year, get its first look at “The Promontory,” a mixed-use development that would add 262 homes and five commercial parcels off Benns Church Boulevard. Around the same time, Isle of Wight County’s Planning Commission could get its first look at revised plans for St. Luke’s Village, a 2005-approved […]
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