Graham mayor, council often at odds over merits of applicants for city boards
Graham’s mayor and four city council members continued their rather frequent tussles over city priorities during this week’s consideration of appointments and reappointments to...
Council adopts budget with 3¢ property tax hike on 3-2 vote
Graham’s city council, which has eyed a 3-cent property tax increase all spring, ended up being divided over the final budget with that level...
Elon town council unanimously adopts budget with 5¢ property tax hike
Elon’s town council has approved a new annual budget that increases the town’s property tax rate by 5 cents to help bankroll $13.6 million...
Local governments vary on revenue assumptions
How much are sales and property taxes expected to increase?
Economic forecasting is a notoriously dicey way to make a living.
One joke that those in...
Graham’s city engineering co.: three new estimates to repair Sesquicentennial Park range from $573K...
Graham city officials have received three new estimates of the cost to repair Sesquicentennial Park at the northwest corner of Court Square in downtown...
Graham city council members clash with mayor over budget questions
Graham city council members agreed by consensus during a budget session Monday afternoon to increase fees for a number of city services for the...
Burlington’s city council adds to manager’s tax hike to pass budget with 8-cent, 16.5...
On Tuesday, the council added another penny to the manager's proposed property tax rate increase
The people of Burlington appeared to offer up a collective...
Mebane city council scraps city manager’s proposed 2-cent property tax hike
Mebane's city council's overrode city manager Richard White's planned 2-cent tax increase, voting instead to continue the city's current tax rate of 37 cents...
Gibsonville passes budget
Gibsonville’s board of aldermen voted 5-0 Monday to night to adopt the town’s $19.1 million budget that includes no increase in the existing municipal...
Haw River town council adopts $9.5M budget with no tax increase
Haw River’s town council voted 5-0 Monday night to adopt a $9.5 million budget for 2026-27 that keeps the property tax rate at its...
