Gail Heinsohn is reporting in the Chatham Courier the Chatham Board of Education will hold a hearing on whether it should grant veterans of the U.S. armed forces exemptions from school taxes. The board rejected the proposal last year. Veteran and former Canaan Town Supervisor Gary Flaherty said at a board meeting Tue., Feb. 9, Chatham is one of two districts in Columbia County that has not enacted the exemptions. Flaherty said the financial impact on non-veteran taxpayers in districts where the exemptions are in place is four dollars a month. The exemption would apply to all veterans with wartime service, and additional exemptions would be granted for those who saw combat and those who were disabled. “Literally hundreds of vets” called him and said Chatham “should have granted the exemption” last year, said Flaherty. The board and school administrators were divided on the question, but it was eventually agreed that a hearing on the veteran tax exemptions will be held prior to the next school board meeting on February 23. Read the full story in the Chatham Courier.