LaHarpe residents will be asked to bring back a sales tax that would help fund upkeep of city streets. For 10 years, the city had a 1% tax before it expired earlier this year. But the tax expired after voters rejected a similar measure last November that would have extended the tax at a 1.5% rate for the next decade. The lost funding could not have come at a worse time, Mayor Mae Crowell said, because the city’s costs are skyrocketing.
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