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Washington’s 2025-26 tax rate, a short budget review
The Washington adopted city budget for 2025-26 is $146,235,421. The budget consists of many enterprise funds including water, electric, sewer, stormwater, airport and et cetera. ...
Al Klemm, Author at Washington Daily News
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The closing of S.W. Snowden and local county BCS funding
The 2025-2026 Beaufort County Budget was approved at the June 2, 2025 commissioners’ meeting. I attended several meetings leading up to budget approval. This is ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, June 11, 2025 8:01 am
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Municipal elections are important to our local communities
Candidate filing for municipal elections is less than a month away. Candidate filing starts Monday, July 7 at 8 a.m. and ends Friday, July 18 ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, June 4, 2025 8:00 am
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Tariffs, free trade and China
Way back in the 1970’s, I represented a European machine manufacturer. We provided installation, service and parts as needed by the customer. Imported parts were ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 7:59 am
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Beaufort County Schools funding and closing of S.W. Snowden
Over the years, I’ve performed quite a bit of root cause analysis (RCA) for my customers to identify and solve problems they were experiencing. Normally, ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, May 7, 2025 8:01 am
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The closing of S.W. Snowden School forum
The recent economic activity in Aurora is an asset which will provide benefits to the citizens of Aurora and Richland Township. The decline of population ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, April 23, 2025 7:01 am
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USPS: Where it’s been, where it’s headed
A few weeks ago, I went out and opened my garage door and a package was sitting in front of where the garage door was. ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, April 16, 2025 3:53 pm
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Aurora, economic development and S.W. Snowden
Back between 2000-2010, I used to go to Aurora most years and work the Republican Booth at the Fossil Festival. People from all over the ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, April 9, 2025 7:59 am
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The Board of Elections and 2025 municipal elections
I recently stopped by the Board of Elections to say hello to Kelly Hopkins and Anita Bullock. Both Kelly, director, and Anita, deputy director, have ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:50 am
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Beaufort County Community College boat building program update
It’s been about a year since I checked the status of the boat building program at Beaufort County Community College (BCCC). I called Ben Morris, ...
by Al Klemm, Wednesday, March 19, 2025 8:01 am
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