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Merrimack Valley

April 5, 2007

State treasurer wary of Lottery aid increase

DANVERS - "Some type of fatigue" is striking Lottery ticket buyers in the state, leading to lower revenues and possibly reduced aid to cities and towns this year, state Treasurer Tim Cahill told several hundred members of the North Shore Chamber of Commerce yesterday.

"Currently, we are 2 percent below where we were two years ago," said Cahill, the keynote speaker of the chamber's Economic and Public Policy Breakfast Forum at the Sheraton Ferncroft Hotel & Resort. "If we don't make it up, it comes out of the coffers of cities and towns."Read this article in full with a
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