County budget is complete with no tax increase

(The Stokes News) - Stokes County residents won’t have to reach deeper into their wallets this coming fiscal year. There will be no tax increase as the newly-adopted 2008-09 budget goes into effect on July 1. The vote to accept the proposed budget was 4-1, with Commissioner Ron Carroll dissenting and Commissioners Leon Inman, Ernest Lankford, Stanley Smith, and Jimmy Walker voting yes.