Council braves weather to make pot tax deadline

Despite late openings and early closures of some Lebanon city services because of nasty weather, the scheduled City Council meeting was held as planned Wednesday, Dec. 14.

One of the reasons for that decision, said City Manager Gary Marks, was a state deadline for a marijuana tax collection agreement.

“If the council hadn’t acted tonight, we wouldn’t be able to do this,” he said. “We’d be collecting our own tax. So that was part of…