City manager’s $28M budget would keep property tax rate at 45½ cents
Graham city manager Frankie Maness is recommending a $28 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year that would keep the city’s property tax rate...
Council may next target elimination of downtown planters
The discussion was ostensibly about Graham’s downtown plan last week when Graham’s city councilmen met, but the councilmen soon strayed into a discussion about...
Councilman, mayor want bike lane restriped – pronto
At a 3-hour meeting where council members were sometimes bogged down in discussion about everything from a new emergency dispatch system with Burlington (almost...
Commissioners miffed that Graham wants to drop county’s 9-1-1 service for Burlington’s
The city of Burlington has accepted a proposal to provide emergency dispatch services to Graham that officials in both municipalities hail as a model...
Rejection for planning board reappointment turns into motivation for successful city council run
Ricky Hall has spent much of his life trying to find a work-around.
The 60-year-old retired GIS mapping specialist grew up “on the wrong side...












