HAMLET — The City of Hamlet has adopted their 2021-2022 budget, which was balanced without a tax or rate increase thanks to significant cuts and use of more than $400,000 from the city’s fund balance.

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ROCKINGHAM — There’s no tax increase in the proposed City of Rockingham budget for fiscal year 2021-2022, following a year in which the city, like several other municipalities in the county, took the unprecedented step of imposing a $0.10 tax increase to cover the significant loss of sales tax revenue caused by the county’s change to an ad valorem sales tax distribution method.

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