Monthly Archives: June 2023
‘Senior pranks’ cont.: SHS principal gave students permission to ‘decorate’; deputies were asked to be there but not interfere
Midnight shenanigans OK'd by principal, who violated ABSS policy by allowing students on campus without staff present
The Alamance News has learned that at least...
County commissioners now looking at new tax rate of 43 cents, $1M above ‘revenue neutral’
SUMMARY: Alamance County commissioners are looking to trim the proposed tax rate for the 2023-2024 budget year to 43 cents per $100 valuation, just...
Matt Ritter out as principal at Southern Middle following teacher’s arrest for indecent liberties
'Administrative leave' evolves to 'contract non-renewal';
New SMS principal named
Southern Middle School principal Matt Ritter will not be returning for the 2023-24 school year.
Ritter,...
Nearly two dozen grievances filed with school board over discipline for ‘senior pranks’
Alamance-Burlington school officials confirmed for The Alamance News on Tuesday that a total of 23 grievances have been filed by parents and students who...
Divided Graham council goes ‘revenue neutral’ on 3-2 vote
Tuesday night, Graham became the first, and so far only, local municipality to adopt a 2023-2024 budget with a revenue neutral tax rate.
The county...
Elon adopts new budget with property tax rate 14 percent above revenue neutral
Elon’s town council has approved a new municipal budget that features a property tax rate roughly 14 percent higher than what the town needed...
Gibsonville manager’s recommended budget is 18 percent above revenue neutral
By Charity L. Cohen
Special to The Alamance News
Gibsonville town manager Ben Baxley has unveiled a proposed budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that includes...
Why can’t county commissioners get to revenue neutral?
We don’t understand the county commissioners’ action this week in seemingly deciding to walk away from further decision-making just as they were about to...
Some principals should probably also have been banned from graduation
All six Alamance-Burlington high schools held their graduations this past weekend. Missing from walking to pick up their diplomas were 82 seniors who had...
The self-fulfilling momentum of bureaucracy
We acknowledge that the “budget season” is a frustrating one for us to follow.
Every factor in local government – both at the county level...
