Lindsay Bohney stares at her house’s property tax bill. There’s one figure she has trouble swallowing: roughly $4,000 for the school district.
That’s in addition to the roughly $18,800 she says she already pays in taxes to the district for the farmland in Lowell she co-owns with her mother.
As a fourth-generation Lowellian, she’s held on to her family’s farmland even as she’s watched the town’s agricultural spaces give way to new housing subdivisions, a data center, and — ironically enough — a future John Deere factory. Bohney, a single mom, works multiple jobs to make ends meet…