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Town of Harpswell and vendor may divide cost of $190K cyberfraud (opens the original)
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Lawyers for the Town of Harpswell and a vendor caught up in a six-figure scam are negotiating a settlement that would have the two parties splitting the cost of money lost in the fraud, Select Board Chair Kevin Johnson said in an interview on Aug. 16. Johnson said in May that the town had been “the victim of a fraud scheme in which it received fraudulent payment instructions that were made to appear as if they came from a vendor, diverting $189,199 of municipal funds away from the intended recip
Harpswell cuts tax rate as revaluation shows 49% hike in property values (opens the original)
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The taxable value of Harpswell’s residential and commercial properties rose 49% in the first townwide reappraisal in two decades, but town leaders say that doesn’t automatically mean higher tax bills. After receiving the new valuation figures, the Harpswell Select Board set a new, lower tax rate of $4.84 per $1,000 of taxable value on Wednesday. That’s down from the previous $6.66 rate and should, they said, leave the average tax bill largely unchanged — with the exception of mobile homes and se
Driver charged in Orr’s Island fatality had long history of OUIs, drug use — and kept driving for months after crash (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: Jeffrey Good is a volunteer emergency medical technician with the Orr’s and Bailey Islands Fire Department who responded to both the November and January crashes. None of the information in this story came from his fire department work; all came from public records and Anchor interviews. Jean Johnson was an administrative volunteer for the Harpswell Anchor. The husband of an Orr’s Island grandmother who died in a January crash — and the first responders who tried to save her — are
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