Macon County Commissioners Hold Mid-Year Work Session for 2014

The Macon County Commissioners met with selected staff members in the Cecil Groves Center at Southwestern Community College to take stock of where they are and look at options for what they want to accomplish in the coming year. It is the traditional kickoff of the annual budget cycle that will culminate in the approval of a new county budget in the weeks before July 1st. Part One This video includes the welcome by Chairman Kevin Corbin,...

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Franklin Town Board Holds Annual Retreat

The Franklin Town Board held their annual retreat this past weekend to discuss several items of interest to the board and receive several updates from the town manager on some projects the town is working on. I posted a play by play on Facebook [LINK] and recorded video of the entire meeting. The video is posted below for your convenience. A few photos from Saturday morning... ...

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Franklin TDA 01-13-2013

The Franklin Tourism Development Authority met last night in the town hall and heard a presentation from Jessica Mason of PRemiere Marketing and Justin Belleme of J&B Media regarding the social media advertising campaign and website maintenance of the Franklin TDA website. I posted a play by play of the meeting on the Macon Media Facebook page and you can see a video of the entire meeting below: MEDIA ROLL CALL Macon Media (me) Macon...

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Macon County Board of Education 01-09-2014

The Macon County Board of Education had a special called meeting yesterday afternoon. They voted 5-0, after a lengthy discussion, to join the North Carolina School Board Association lawsuit against vouchers. Superintendent Dr. Chris Baldwin provided an update on Caital Outlay priorities for the coming budget discussion for the 2014-2015 budget. There was a prolonged dicussion on "Flexibility of Testing" and ramifications of opting out on...

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Franklin Aldermen 01-06-201

The Franklin Town Board of Aldermen will be meeting tonight at 7pm for their regular January meeting. I will be posting a play by play of the meeting on Facebook and will upload the video sometime tomorrow (or the day after if I decide it is too cold to go into in town). I have the agenda and press kit embedded below, for the purpose of transparency, along with a couple of attachments. Feel free to download them and add them to your...

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2013 Meeting Index

2013 was quite a year. Here are links to my coverage of the meetings of various local governing boards I provided this past year, with few extra links to some of the other stuff I covered this past year. I have plans to step up my coverage of local meetings this year and will be expanding to cover things that outside my normal bailiwick. I'm also hoping to launch a news website separate from this blog so I can restart my political blogging...

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Weather Update for January 2, 2014

We have some wintry weather possible today and tonight, with more possible late Sunday/Monday and a brutally cold chill coming early next week, so make your preparations now people. Here is what I posted on the weather page I maintain on facebook: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,...

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