Bement library officials seek tax rate increase

BEMENT – Bement's library system dates back to 1856, when early residents started a school, and then a library in a private residence.

Eighty years later, in 1936, the library was legally organized as a township library supported by a 1.5 cent per $100 of assessed valuation tax rate.

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