Program helps some facing tax foreclosure stay in homes
LANSING (AP) — Some Michigan homeowners struggling with property taxes can sign up for affordable payment plans to help them stay in their houses under new legislation.
The “Pay as You Stay” bill was signed Monday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
It implements a program that allows foreclosing governmental units to reduce delinquent property taxes owed by homeowners who qualify for poverty exemptions.
Once enrolled, all interest, penalties and fees would be eliminated. The balance due would be limited to back taxes only or 10% of a home’s taxable value, whichever is less. The remaining balance would be paid back over three years at no interest.
Homeowners who qualify for full or partial property tax exemptions and enroll in future years would be eligible for the program.
One-person households can’t earn more than $19,303 and households with four people can’t earn more than $28,671 per year to be eligible for property tax exemptions.
English woman wins annual pancake race in Kansas
LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — An Englishwoman barely squeaked out a victory over a competitor across the pond in Kansas in last week’s annual pancake race between their British and American hometowns.
Katie Godor, from Olney, in Buckinghamshire, ran the 71st International Pancake Day race with a time of 1:06 seconds. That just beat the time of Whitney Hay, a student at Seward County Community College, who won the Liberal, Kansas, leg of the race in 1.09 seconds.
Women in the event must run a 415-yard race while carrying a pancake in a frying pan and flipping it at the beginning and end.
The race began in Olney in the 15th century. Liberal challenged Olney to an international competition in 1950.
The event expanded this year in Liberal to a four-day event, that includes pancake eating and flipping contests, a parade and a carnival.
Snow day? No, it’s illness — again — in state school district
ROGERS CITY (AP) — Illness — not snow — canceled classes Monday for a fourth time at a school district in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.
“I hope that this is the last of it,” Rogers City Superintendent Nick Hein told The Alpena News.
Bad weather hasn't scratched classes this year in Rogers City, which is along Lake Huron, 60 miles southeast of the Mackinac Bridge. But illness is another story.
The district has roughly 510 students. A quarter of them were out Friday.
“My school nurse has confirmed the majority of it was the flu,” Hein said of students who were absent.
District Health Department No. 4 said flu has been widespread for five to six weeks in the northeastern Lower Peninsula.
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