County’s planning board wrestles with whether to increase minimum size for residential lots in...
A public debate about subdivision lot sizes might strike some people as a mind-numbingly dull way to spend a Thursday night in July. But...
New county property tax bills now hitting home
Things have begun to heat up in Alamance County’s tax office in the three weeks or so since it issued the property tax bills...
Contractor waiting on bricks to finish conversion of bank building to new elections office
Renovations continue inside a former bank branch that the county has purchased at 1128 South Main Street in Graham to provide a new, more...
County tax office continues to process revaluation appeals
An appointed citizen review board continues to chip away at the nearly 5,000 appeals that area property owners have filed since the county’s tax...
THE PUBLIC ASKS: Did revaluation favor farmers & businesses at expense of homeowners?
QUESTION: Was Barry Joyce, a one-time contender for Alamance County’s board of commissioners, correct when he recently informed the board’s current members that the...
THE PUBLIC ASKS: Could reval show 20% gain in value in just one year?
QUESTION: Can a home that sold just a year before the county’s latest revaluation end up with a much higher tax value than the...
Teen hit and killed by Amtrak train
An 18-year-old male was killed while walking on railroad tracks near Mebane Tuesday afternoon.
The Alamance County sheriff's office responded at 12:53 p.m. Tuesday to...
County to continue using contractor for revaluation appeals
Commissioners also extend term of tax administrator Jeremy Akins
Alamance County’s commissioners have decided to allow an appraisal contractor to continue handling the county’s revaluation-related...
Commissioners explore alternatives to increased reliance on property taxes
A majority of Alamance County’s commissioners ultimately decided to ramp up the county’s property tax rate in order to provide the Alamance-Burlington school system...
THE PUBLIC ASKS: Does Alamance have near lowest tax rate?
QUESTION: During last week’s public hearing on the Alamance County budget for 2023-2024, one of the speakers, Joe Wall, a cattle farmer from Snow...
