ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council met in the first week of September for a regular business meeting with two public hearings on the agenda. The council first held a hearing for a rezoning request for just more than one acre of property located at 129 East Ward Street from General Commercial to Office-Apartment Conditional […]
TRINITY — The process to fill a vacancy for the city manager in Trinity should accelerate by next week. The city has listed the opening for city manager, with an application deadline at the end of August. The vacancy occurred upon the departure of now-former city manager Stevie Cox in July. That was part of […]
ASHEBORO — The City of Asheboro will be taking steps in the coming months to work toward improving parking availability downtown. At the Asheboro City Council’s meeting last week, assistant city manager Trevor Nuttall presented to the council some short-term strategies that the staff figured could be implemented without any additional financial resources. “We are […]
ASHEBORO — The Asheboro City Council approved another step toward the development of a 400-plus unit development just to the north of the North Carolina Zoo At its July regular business meeting last week, the council held a public hearing for a request to amend an existing Low-Density Residential Conditional Zoning District encompassing approximately 235 […]
ASHEBORO — The Randolph County Board of Commissioners took action this week to address staffing shortages in the Emergency Services Department. At its July meeting, the board approved the appropriation of carryover funds to the emergency services department in order to address current staffing shortages in the 911 center. “In this budget year, we had […]
ASHEBORO – The Randolph County Board of Commissioners adopted the fiscal year 2025-26 budget at a June 16 meeting. The budget is balanced at approximately $202.3 million, a roughly 5.4% increase from the prior year’s total. “This board and the staff have done an excellent job at presenting a budget that we can live with, […]
ASHEBORO – The Asheboro City Council approved its 2025-26 operating budget, which is balanced at about $75.7 million, at its June meeting. Of that, the general fund is balanced at approximately $50.5 million, which is approximately a $2 million increase from the prior year, mostly due to personnel expenses, city manager Donald Duncan said. “We’re […]
ASHEBORO – Randolph County is aiding the Town of Seagrove with one of its major projects. At its meeting Monday, the Randolph County Board of Commissioners approved a $250,000 loan to the Town of Seagrove to assist with its upfit of the Historic Lucks Cannery. “As of now, Seagrove has spent a little over $3 […]
ASHEBORO – The Asheboro Police Department is looking into reopening the old shooting range on Old Lexington Road. At the Asheboro City Council’s May meeting, Asheboro police chief Robert Brown Jr. discussed the process the department is undergoing toward that goal. The North Carolina Department of Labor had conducted a test last year that determined […]
ASHEBORO – The City of Asheboro is aiming for a summer reopening of the playground area at the Zoo City Sportsplex. At its April meeting, the council approved a $200,000 allocation for needed repairs to the playground. “Basically what we had were drains that were stopped up and a compaction issue,” city manager Donald Duncan […]
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