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The Wine Wars: How the Welfare Rich Dodge Property Taxes with Fake Farms. It's not just Chatham.

Trump's pick for Surgeon General Nicole Saphier cut her tax bill down to $40 with chickens and lavender. The Williams of Chatham are running the same play. Everyone else picks up the check.

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Joshua Powell
May 21, 2026
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The Town of Chatham is entertaining a new liquor license application. Is it a coincidence that the name and address of the applicant are missing from the 29-page town board meeting agenda? Or is this just more obfuscation at the hands of Donal Collins? Good question. Rumor also has it that there is more legal correspondence missing on the town’s website concerning 509 Bashford Road. Well, let’s not call it a rumor. It’s a fact.

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