Dellinger Sells Modern Sales & Service New Car Dealership to Powers, Robertson

  Modern Sales & Service, Inc., Grundy's only new car dealer, has been sold.
  Local businessman Roger Powers and sister Ginger Powers Robertson have purchased the dealership as well as all the buildings and land that was owned by the company from Earl E. Dellinger.
   The sale was finalized on June 1, 2006. Powers and Robertson, who are Dellinger's niece and nephew, already owned a substantial interest in the firm. The purchase price was not disclosed.
   Dellinger and wife Dorothy had operated the business since its founding in 1946 until her death in March 2002. He continued to manage the business until the sale last week.
   Following a storybook roadside signing of a Jeep franchise nearly 60 years ago, the dealership opened in an old gasoline service station which was not a part of Grundy at the time. A new building, complete with a large showroom and service department, was soon erected and the infant dealership grew to be strong and healthy. Over the years, Modern Sales has represented a variety of manufacturers. at present, the company sells a full line of Jeep, Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet automobiles along with GMC trucks.

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GOP to Select N. Grundy Candidate for Supervisor

by JoBeth Wampler
Staff Reporter
   Republicans will nominate a candidate to seek the North Grundy post on the Buchanan County Board of Supervisors during a mass meeting June 13 at 6 p.m.
   Held in the board of supervisors' meeting room in the basement of the Buchanan County Courthouse, the meeting will determine who will face Democrat incumbent Carroll Branham in the November 7 election. Branham was officially named the Democrat nominee for the post during a Democrat convention May 27.

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Delinquent Car Taxes Need to Be Paid June 12
State Fund Nearing Depletion

by Cathy St. Clair
News Editor
   While delinquent taxpayers were previously advised that as long as they paid up by September, they wouldn’t lose the car tax relief provided by the state, it now appears the deadline is actually closer.
  It’s now next week.
  Buchanan County Treasurer Bill Keene said he had been told last week, that revised state estimates now show the car tax money available from the state is likely to be dried up by as early as next Tuesday, June 12 or Wednesday, June 13, 2006.
  Keene said he had received an e-mail from Hanover County Treasurer Scott Miller, informing him and treasurers statewide that the tax relief money set aside by the state is nearly gone.
  "Only $7,378,317 remains," Miller said. "At the current rate to date since December, this will be exhausted by June 12 or 13."
  Keene said the bottom line for taxpayers who are delinquent already is simple, "pay now to avoid losing your car tax relief."
  Once the state money is depleted, delinquent personal property taxpayers will become responsible for paying 100 percent of their car taxes with no relief available from the state.
  "When it’s over, it’s over," Keene said. "When it’s gone, it’s gone."
  Persons who paid on time had the total amount of the car tax they paid split on a 70/30 basis, with the state paying 70 percent and the taxpayer paying 30 percent of the total amount due.
  However, changes in state law will see the split gone for delinquent taxpayers, when they do pay after the state money is used up. Instead of only paying 30 percent, they will pay 100 percent of their car taxes, plus penalties and interest for paying late.
  A letter explaining the change was sent out with second billing notices advising the people affected that if they don’t pay, they will lose any relief that was due and will be responsible for 100 percent of the cost.
  Keene used an example of a car tax bill where $100 was due, noting that those who paid on time paid $30 while the state picked up the remaining $70. If those who are delinquent now pay before the state money is gone, they will be entitled to the same arrangement, but they will still pay any penalty and interest due. If they wait until after the state money is no longer available, however, using Keene’s example, they will pay the entire $100, plus penalties and interest. The state will pay nothing.

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