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Opinion

August 26, 2006

Go Figure

$800,000 New estimate for repairs to the Essex Town Hall. The recent estimate is much larger than the $300,000 the town hoped would pay for the work.

$37 The amount an average Gloucester driver would save in auto insurance next year, under a plan proposed by state insurance companies.

$100 Cost of a year of bus service for seventh- and eighth-graders riding the bus to O'Maley Middle School.

$126 Average sewer bill increase expected in Rockport next year.

1 Number of complaints to the state Highway Department about a roadside memorial on Route 128 in Manchester. The memorial, which marked the spot where two Danvers teens were killed by a wrong-way, drunken driver in 2004, was removed after the complaint.

Quote of the week

"I go by there a couple of times a month, and it's sad to see nothing left. It's like someone took down your memorial in a cemetery. Why would somebody do that?"

Janice Conway, aunt of Patrick Murphy, who died in the Route 128 crash.

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