School board starts considering how to trim ABSS budget based on proposed county...
Alamance County manager Heidi York’s proposed allocation to the Alamance-Burlington school system has prompted school officials to begin thinking about possible ways to trim...
Alamance County Memorial Day ceremony soldiers on despite adversity, personal loss
Perseverance was the order of the day when local veterans and their supporters gathered in Graham on Monday for Alamance County’s annual Memorial Day...
ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Comprehensive Coverage of County Manager’s Proposed 2026-2027 Budget, Property Tax Rate...
For the most comprehensive coverage of county government, you need to be reading The Alamance News each week. Here are this week's stories related...
Manager’s Warning: Don’t Keep Using Fund Balance
"We cannot continue to drain our fund balance.”
– County manager Heidi York
Alamance County’s manager Heidi York has insisted that the dose of tough love...
Manager Blames Post-reval Tax Rate for Current Revenue Crisis
Alamance County’s manager Heidi York insisted that it wasn’t simply bad luck that has led to the financial predicament which she identified in her...
County Residents Put in Their Two Cents Even Before Proposed Budget Is Released
The will of the general public is theoretically the driving force behind every decision made by Alamance County’s top brass. But the public’s role...
Manager’s budget gets mixed verdict from board
Members of the general public weren’t alone in their ambivalence about the proposed budget that county manager Heidi York unfurled on Monday.
Equally mixed was...
Proposed Budget: Spending Down 1.2%; Net Cut in Staff: 47
Alamance County’s manager has unveiled a spending plan that would add 2.25 cents (or nearly 4.6 percent) to the county’s property tax rate to...
State lifts burn ban in Alamance Co. et al.
The N.C. Forest Service has released Alamance County from a ban on open burning that had been in effect across North Carolina since March...
Commissioners plead lack of authority to stop controversial rural subdivisions near Saxapahaw
The want of any higher-level, local approval for Alamance County’s rural subdivisions hasn’t discouraged residents from approaching the county’s top brass with their objections...
