THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Chuck Thompson | The Shelby Independent The special called Town of Boiling Springs Council meeting in session, June 9, 2026. | Chuck Thompson BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – The meeting was civil Tuesday night as the Town of Boiling Springs Council made a historic change to its insurance carrier after a half-century. Previously, at the June 2 meeting, it was suggested that the town government was allegedly being unethical by springing this upon their current provider, to which C

By Alan Wooten | The Center Square Alan Wooten | The Center Square (The Center Square) – Property tax reform options will be examined and recommendations made by a 10-member committee of the Senate in North Carolina. Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, the president pro tempore, chose Appropriations Committee Cochairmen Brent Jackson, R-Sampson, and Michael Lee, R-New Hanover, to lead the group. Policy proposals “to rein in runaway property tax practices being implemented acro