The Alamance County Board of Commissioners approved five applications for needs-based grants to the Alamance-Burlington School System and decided to move forward with a plan to consolidate the county’s health department in their meeting Sept. 15.
Vice Chair Steve Carter began the meeting by addressing the death of Charlie Kirk and commemorated the conservative political activist. Carter said that Kirk’s murder was an “attack on us all.”
“Our country was founded on principles, one of which was freedom of speech. Charlie’s right was taken away by someone who simply disagreed with him,” Carter said. “If we allow that approach to free speech to continue, we’re doomed, I believe, as a republic.”…