Forest County Commissioners on Wednesday approved an interim county budget for 2023 that does not include tax increases.
“We’ve worked hard on the budget, department heads have done a good job of cutting their numbers,” commissioners’ chairman Mark Kingston said at Wednesday’s meeting.
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