YARMOUTH, Maine — Some Yarmouth residents are facing sticker shock after seeing their property revaluations.

"Mine went up over about 110 percent," Diane Nichols said. She has lived in Yarmouth for 23 years. Like others in the community, she was shocked by the size of the reassessment and frustrated with the timing of its release.

"The assessments were [received in the mail] five weeks after we voted on a school budget and municipal budget," Nichols explains. "Had we known what the assessments are, that might have definitely changed the vote."

According to the town, voters approved the more than $42 million school budget by only 65 votes.

Nichols told NEWS CENTER Maine the town could have changed the valuation date to an earlier date so residents could have gotten their revaluations so

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