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Recent Examples of croftLiving on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
The hospital also had a failing score for urinary tract infections from catheters.
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Scott Schwebke,
Oc Register,
12 July 2025
That could negate the need for costly and invasive methods of GI tract investigation – like endoscopy and computerized tomography (CT) – that can only be used in hospitals.
Here are the two exemptions: Homeowners age 65 and older: The homestead exemption applies to a primary home owned and occupied on Jan. 1 of the reassessment year.
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Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
The homestead exemption does not apply to school interest and sinking taxes, which is a component of the property tax rate that goes toward debt from bond elections.
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Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
After the girders were installed, crews began installing additional reinforcing steel plats and cross frames, along with scaffolding and forms for the bridge deck's reconstruction.
City leaders voted Monday, April 15, approving the preliminary plat and site plan and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Plan for the project in two 4-1 votes.
Behind the on-screen splendor are actual castles, manors, and stately palaces—many of which are still privately owned, maintained by noble families, or open to the public.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
10 June 2025
Built in 1928 by oil baron Edward Doheny for his son, the manor and its cascading gardens offer views of the city and a quiet respite.
Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
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Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
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