Ridgefield resident Virginia Roberts was expecting her property taxes to go up this year. After all, they’re going up everywhere.
But when she saw her bill for $4,139.68 — a nearly 30 percent increase from last year — for her and her husband’s three-bedroom ranch home, she was taken aback.
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