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Originally Posted by Bear Islander
Camp Menotomy is run on a shoestring by the Arlington Massachusetts Girl Scout Troup. The camp has over 120 acres and about 1,000' of Winnipesaukee frontage. Its the undeveloped shorefront south of Shep Browns. The Arlington Girl Scouts will not be able to sell enough cookies to pay the taxes on a piece of prime waterfront property worth close to 10 million.
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It's actually run by the Eastern Massachusetts Girls Scouts organization - slightly larger organization....still tax exempt and rightly so. But saying its run by a tiny Troop is like saying Camp Bernadette is run by Blessed Sacrament Parish in Medford....when it is run by the RC Church - Manchester Diocese.
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The two camps on Bear are owned by the Lawrence Massachusetts Y. 1,600' of frontage and another 10 million.
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Again not exactly - they are owned by the YMCA Merrimack Valley which runs the Lawrence YMCA and the Andover/North Andover YMCA - see where I am headed with the latter....its not run by an inner city organization, in fact when I attended Camp Lawrence it was populated with many kids from North Andover and Andover along with kids from all around Massachusetts.
Anyway - as someone associated with non-profit private schools which are currently under the gun in Massachusetts to be taxed, I can say that not only is it possible that this will happen to other non-profits, but it is likely to happen (maybe not for another decade, but it will happen.)
