Tuesday, May 15, 2007

 

Landfill's neighbors want fairer shake

The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Here's a picture no Realtor would want a house- shopping client to see: A homeowner wearing a mask while mowing the lawn, the better to blot out the smell from the nearby landfill.

That is an experience Marilyn Stith describes to illustrate the joys of living near the troublesome Countywide landfill in Pike Township. Stith wonders, as she told The Repository for a story Sunday, how her home, to which she says she has made no improvements in 10 years, could increase in value by $41,000 in the most recent reappraisal by the Stark County auditor's office. Stith and 13 other landowners near the landfill want their property taxes lowered....Read more.