An election with only one question on the ballot could be easily overlooked.

But judging by the Letters to the Editor received on the topic, a fair number of Dickinson County residents are deeply interested in Tuesday’s vote on a property tax levy renewal for the Bay College Iron Mountain Campus.

Enough that anyone who has a view on continuing the tax of 0.9987 mills — or just less than $1 per $1,000 of taxable value — for another 20 years would be well-advised to go to their polling site Tuesday, because the most motivated likely will win this issue.

This would replace the millage county voters approved when Escanaba-based Bay de Noc Community College opened its Iron Mountain facility in 2007 at 2801 N. U.S. 2. That levy is set to expire in 2026.

The renewal, if it passes, would gener

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