Residents weigh in on budget even before its public release
A proposed budget that Alamance County’s manager unveiled this week will be formally exposed to popular scrutiny when the county’s board of commissioners holds...
County mgr. proposes 1.59¢ (3.4%) property tax hike, 2% spending increase, cuts to ABSS
There was no lively sales pitch when Alamance County’s manager presented her latest spending plan to the county’s board of commissioners this week.
Instead, county...
BREAKING MON. NIGHT: County manager recommends higher spending, property tax increase
Alamance County manager Heidi York unveiled a proposed 2025-2026 budget Monday night that left both conservative Republican commissioners and some public speakers who spoke...
Are local libraries a priority the county should keep funding?
A member of the county’s governing board may have opened a whole card catalog’s worth of controversy with the suggestion that the county should...
County commissioner targets staff training in ongoing crusade against ‘social justice’
A proposal to defund the county’s libraries wasn’t the only surprise that one member of Alamance County’s governing board sprung on his colleagues during...
Sheriff reports jail, deputy staffing better; $10,000 signing bonuses have helped
Alamance County’s sheriff had both good news and bad news to report to the county’s board of commissioners when he presented them with a...
Commissioners eschew tax hike while contemplating capital spending
Alamance County’s commissioners didn’t have much to show for a special-called meeting that they held on Monday to delve into a proposed capital improvement...
Commissioners approve “PG” stickers for library books with mature themes
A flap over edgy library books has prompted the county’s library system to borrow a page from the distributors of motion pictures and other...
Commissioners OK change order (+$336K) for courthouse expansion
A cost adjustment might seem all but inevitable with a project on the scale of the county’s proposed expansion of the Judge J.B. Allen...
Commissioners tap assistant tax chief in Mecklenburg to take over Alamance County’s tax...
Alamance County’s governing board has selected Bradley Fowler, the current second-in-command to Mecklenburg County’s tax administrator, to serve as the new head of Alamance...
