Overnight Bulletin: Commissioners vote 3-2 for 2½-cent property tax hike
A deeply divided board of commissioners voted Tuesday night for a 2½-cent property tax increase, about a 5.33 percent increase – the third consecutive...
ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: County manager prepares four budget options for commissioners for Mon. night...
Alamance County commissioners have been given four options for a revised new budget for 2025-2026 from county manager Heidi York, based on various criteria...
ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: More on the budget from two days of commissioner workshops
Read extensive coverage from 10 hours of county commissioner meetings during budget workshops on Monday and Tuesday, June 9 and 10.
• Discovery of new...
Commissioners appear ready to spend windfall of new revenues in fund balance; still pondering...
A grueling two-day “work session” earlier this week saw no hard-fast agreement arise among Alamance County’s leaders about the final details of the county’s...
County administrators eviscerate commissioner’s alternative budget
County commissioner Ed Priola broke with tradition last week when he booked a formal appearance before his fellow commissioners to poke holes in the...
Commissioners grill rural fire chiefs on proposed hikes in district tax rates
Alamance County’s leaders had a chance to turn up the heat this week on six rural fire departments that have proposed increases in the...
AN ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: EXTENSIVE COUNTY BUDGET COVERAGE
The county commissioners held a three-hour public hearing Monday night that attracted hundreds of residents to the Alamance County Historic Court House. Almost four...
Commissioner Pam Thompson shifts from GOP to unaffiliated
A recent change in one local official’s voter registration has brought an abrupt end to the Republican Party’s six-and-a-half-year monopoly on Alamance County’s governing...
Priola outlines trends, proposes his own spending proposal for keeping current tax rate
Members of the general public weren’t the only ones who weighed in on the county manager’s proposed budget when Alamance County’s board of commissioners...
Rescue Squad, other nonprofits also defended during public hearing
Another substantial bloc of Monday’s audience spoke up in defense of the nonprofit organizations that been nicked by the county manager’s pen.
Meredith Peffley, the...
