Local governments vary on revenue assumptions
How much are sales and property taxes expected to increase?
Economic forecasting is a notoriously dicey way to make a living.
One joke that those in...
Speakers divided between tax rate supporters wanting to provide more funding for ABSS vs....
Alamance County's commissioners held an hour and a half public hearing Monday night, with area residents weighing in for and against the county manager's...
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 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...
Graham city council votes 4-1 to add Juneteenth as a paid holiday for employees
Graham’s city council voted 4-1 this week to add Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19 of each year, as a 13th annual paid holiday...
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...
