Steve Wyatt

FLETCHER — After four years of seeking funds and severing red tape, county officials thought they were finally ready to move forward with an $850,000 block grant project to replace or rehabilitate five homes on Talley Drive in the Brickton community. Since the grant was applied for, however, public backlash from an attempted annexation of the community by Fletcher in 2008 and concerns about private property infringement have created a roadblock for officials hoping to improve the neighbo...

Henderson County was able to grow its reserves by $2.5 million in the last fiscal year, thanks to better-than-expected revenues and conservative budgeting by department heads, county commissioners heard Monday. In a budget report card to the Board of Commissioners, Finance Director Carey McLelland said every county department came in under budget for the fiscal year that ended June 30, for a total savings of $5.2 million dollars in operating costs. "Basically, we had about a 6.8 percen...