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A Good Day For Local School Districts With Tax Levies

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson

Published May 2, 2017 at 11:16 PM EDT

Tuesday turned out to be a good day for area school districts asking property owners for money.

The four major school levies in southwest Ohio all passed easily.

In Wyoming, a 9.5 mill continuing levy will generate $2.4 million a year for the city school district after passing with 69 percent of the vote.
A 5.04 million, 10-year- tax levy for the Northwest Local School District passed by 76 percent.
A 4.82 mill substitute levy for the Oak Hills Local School District was approved by 67 percent of the voters in that district.
A 4.84 mill renewal levy for Lebanon City Schools in Warren County passed with 67 percent of the vote.

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Howard Wilkinson

Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.

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