Sales-tax holiday

Sales-tax holiday

Lawmakers are looking to renew the back-to-school sales-tax holiday.

The holiday will be during the first weekend of August for back-to-school clothing and school supplies. If enacted, House Bill 89 would establish the sales-tax holiday for the third-consecutive year.

Shoppers would pay no sales tax on itemized purchases as they prepare their children for the coming of the new school year. Qualifying products include items of clothing that are $75 or less, school supplies and instructional materials that are $20 or less.

Ohio families saved $3.3 million during the state’s first temporary sales tax holiday in August 2015.

Companion legislation in the Senate was approved earlier this month by a 32-1 vote. Ohio would be one of 18 states to offer a back-to-school sales-tax holiday.

Photo contest

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The Trumbull County MetroParks Board, Trumbull Soil and Water Conservation District and Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership will accept springtime nature photos for a photo contest from Wednesday to 2 p.m. May 26.

The photos have to be taken at a MetroParks property and emailed to Zachary.svette@trumbullmetroparks.org. The photos must be accompanied by the name of the property where it was taken and the date.

Winning photos will be published on the MetroParks web site at www.trumbullmetroparks.org. Winners will receive a prize package.

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