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Getting Ready for the Christmas Stroll
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6 days agoon
By
Ron Richter
The 29th annual Christmas Stroll will be held this upcoming Friday in downtown Sheridan. This year’s theme is a Cowboy Christmas Stroll and there will be a number of family friendly events throughout the day and evening. City of Sheridan Administrator Stu McRae reminds residents that Grinnell Plaza will be closed Friday afternoon for the Christmas Stroll.
Once again, the Christmas Stroll will take place in downtown Sheridan from 8 am to 8 pm and Grinnell Plaza will be closed for the Stroll from 4 to 8 pm. Click here for a full listing of Stroll activities that are planned throughout the day and evening.
Dennis Fox
November 26, 2024 at 9:44 pm
Imagine the increase in local shopping if Everything in Sheridan were on sale with a 1% reduction in all prices!
That’s right we could have reduced the sales tax to a more affordable and local-shopping-friendly 5% sales tax, if just 1300 people had changed their vote to “Against” higher taxes.
That’s about 4% of the population of Sheridan county who are dictating higher taxes to the 96% majority of our hard-working residents.
Talk about dictatorship of the minority!
Michael Johnson
November 29, 2024 at 7:02 pm
Small price to pay and obviously recognized by the majority of the good citizens of Sheridan County as such. Perhaps “less” negativity is always better.
The Cap Tax is approved for a specific amount, exclusively for capital improvement projects for community infrastructure such as streets, roads, bridges, utilities, and facilities. Sheridan County voters approved this tax in 1989, 1998, 2003, 2009, 2013 and 2020. Revenue collected from this tax funds infrastructure projects in the City of Sheridan, Sheridan County, Clearmont, Dayton and Ranchester.
The total amount requested this year is $40,000,000. This amount is allocated between 37 major project categories among the five entities. The current projects were determined over several months of strategic planning. Project costs are leveraged through other sources of funding; the total cost of Cap Tax projects is frequently offset by federal and state matching funds. The Cap Tax makes these projects possible, providing a significant amount of the total cost.
All consumers of goods and services in Sheridan County pay the Capital Facilities sales and use tax. This includes visitors and temporary employees within our communities. The Cap Tax applies only to items that are subject to sales and use tax. It does not apply to sales of most foods (such as groceries), rental payments, home,”