25 Years Ago

Herald of May 16, 1996

The Northern Bedford School Board gave tentative approval Tuesday to a three-mill increase in real estate taxes for the 1996-97 school year.

The tax hike will bring the real estate tax to $123 per thousand dollars of assessed calculation, or a total of 123 mills. It was estimated that the three mill increase will cost the average taxpayer about $25 more than he or she paid this year.

Roaring Spring Borough has denied a building permit to Skills Group Inc. in an effort to force the agency to acknowledge that it needs a zoning variance to proceed with plans to convert...