Commissioners approve November levy vote for Portage County’s struggling library system

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Commissioners approve November levy vote for Portage County’s struggling library system

- Wendy DiAlesandro

The Portage County District Library will again ask for help from taxpayers after at least a dozen previous levy attempts have failed at the ballot box, leaving the district as the third-worst funded library in the state.

Last week, county commissioners approved the library’s request to place a 1 mill levy on the Nov. 2 ballot.

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