OSSIPEE — The Melanson accounting firm announced July 13 it is dropping Carroll County as a client due to the county's inability to prepare its records for a timely audit, the county treasurer revealed recently.
Treasurer Joe Costello read a letter into the record at the July 15 commissioners' meeting a letter from Melanson Principal Sheryl Stephens Burke.
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