Back in the saddle: Bill Lashley returns to board of commissioners
After a month-long convalescence that included 20 days in intensive care at Duke University Hospital, commissioner Bill Lashley returned to the dais on Thursday...
Commissioners will work to cut down on manager’s budget during special session
Alamance County’s commissioners may put some extra fine points on their pencils this morning as they prepare to hack away at the county manager’s...
County mgr. recommends 2¢, 4.6%, hike in property taxes to fund 2.8% spending increase
Alamance County’s manager has floated a new spending plan for the county that aims to “fortify” existing programs and services through measures that include...
Thompson: No more ‘band aids’; Former school board chairman quashes proposals to provide more...
A personal crusade against what she construed as public policy “Band-Aids” has led one member of Alamance County’s governing board to scuttle some recent...
School system turns in budget request too late
A choir of entreaties on behalf of the Alamance-Burlington school system came too late in the day to spare ABSS from a penalty that...
Sheriff promotes property tax hike to help fill staff-level vacancies
Alamance County’s board of commissioners has generally given wide berth to a tax hike in years when any of its members are up for...
Contractor’s review of commercial tax values dampens enthusiasm for battle with big boxes
An all-out war with some of the nation’s top big box retailers seems to have lost favor with the head of Alamance County’s tax...
County’s new behavior health center nears completion in Burlington
Contractors are wrapping up work on a much-anticipated facility in Burlington that promises to revolutionize the services available to residents of Alamance County who...
Commissioners issue remainder of school bonds from 2018
Alamance County commissioners have followed through on their plan to cash out the remainder of a six-year-old package of school bonds in order to...
Lashley hospitalized, misses commissioners’ meeting
Before they got down to business on Monday, Alamance County’s commissioners took a few moments to address the absence of commissioner Bill Lashley, who...
