Hobbsville
GOVERNMENT
Winfall Council OKs $1M budget without a tax hike
WINFALL — Winfall Town Council approved a roughly $1 million budget last week that doesn't include a property tax increase. The spending plan, which the council approved by a 4-1 vote, spends more than $789,000 in the general fund and $278,817 in the sewer fund. Voting for the budget were Mayor Preston White and councilors Arnetta Ormond, Cynthia Cunningham and Debera B. Long. Councilwoman Valery McDonald cast the lone no...
Davis mum on Biden debate performance, focused on 'issues relevant to constituents' concerns'
HERTFORD — U.S. Rep. Don Davis sidestepped questions about President Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday’s presidential debate with presumptive Republican nominee former President Donald Trump after a town hall in Hertford on Friday. Saying he was attending the town hall “in an official capacity to focus on the issues relevant to constituents’ concerns,” Davis declined to discuss Biden’s debate performance which included the president speaking in a raspy and halting voice, at times giving meandering answers, and several times seeming to lose his train of...
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