Monthly Archives: January 2021
Burlington’s leaders continue to mull appointments to police advisory board; 55 people have applied (for maximum of 20 slots)
Officials in Burlington have managed to pare down a list of 55 applicants for a new police advisory board to a somewhat more manageable...
ACC to award $1,000 performance-based bonuses to 222 employees
Alamance Community College’s trustees have voted to award a one-time “performance-based” bonus of $1,000 to 222 full-time ACC employees.
The total cost for the bonuses...
NAACP president wants Sesquicentennial Park name changed to honor Reconstruction era figure Wyatt Outlaw
Graham’s city council will consider a request next month to rename the Sesquicentennial Park on the northwest corner of Court Square.
Barrett Brown, the president...
Planning board recommends OK for 1,056 new apartments; traffic, water & sewer concerns passed on to city council
Graham could potentially get another large apartment complex, this one at the Jimmie Kerr Road exit on the current outskirts of the city.
The planning...
Graham might get national restaurant
Graham’s planning board recommended this week that a 1.5-acre parcel along NC 54 at the interstate be rezoned for commercial use.
The property, now owned...
Court of Appeals overturns order requiring convicted rapist to enroll in lifetime monitoring
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has overturned an order requiring a convicted rapist from Graham to enroll in lifetime satellite-based monitoring (SBM) once...
Court of Appeals upholds sentence for former Burlington woman convicted of sex crimes against her son
The North Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld a nine-year prison sentence for a former Burlington woman who was convicted last year of multiple...
Alamance County courts to resume jury trials next week
Alamance County senior resident superior court judge Tom Lambeth, Jr. has issued a new order outlining changes to Alamance County court operations.
Lambeth issued his...
Health director: vaccine provides reason for hope amid continued spread of COVID
The prognosis was decidedly mixed this week when the head of Alamance County’s health department appeared before the county’s board of commissioners to deliver...
Local long-term care administrators recount coronavirus war stories
In his latest coronavirus update to Alamance County’s commissioners, the county’s health director was joined by three long-term care administrators who offered the county’s...
