Monthly Archives: February 2021
Graham city council sets interim city manager’s salary
Graham's city council spent about 15 minutes in a closed session Tuesday night, emerging to give a raise to assistant city manager Aaron Holland.
The...
County jail reports second outbreak of COVID
Alamance County’s jail has reported its second coronavirus outbreak since the ongoing global pandemic reached North Carolina nearly a year ago.
According to the office...
Critics skewer proposal to hire 17 new SROs as part of $50M ABSS budget
"Defund the police" evolves to criticism of having school resource officers; specifically, five residents lobby ABSS not to increase number
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard...
Burlington police seek red pickup truck driver in hit-and-run case
Police in Burlington are looking for the driver of a red pickup truck that struck an area woman in the parking lot of a...
County leases vacant retail building to move COVID vaccination indoors
Alamance County’s commissioners have approved a deal that will ultimately enable the county’s health department to bring its coronavirus vaccination efforts out of the...
Let the school board vote on its own raise
We thought it was apropos that the county commissioners last week avoided being suckers for the school board.
School board members ducked their own decision-making...
Beware rural zoning
County commissioners and some of the Snow Camp residents who are pushing them in this direction may want to take a deep breath and...
Budget deliberations should always be open
Readers of this page will not be surprised that The Alamance News doesn’t cotton much to secrecy – not in courtrooms, not among municipal...
Is school board wavering over reopenings planned for March 1, 8?
While Alamance-Burlington school system students are supposedly within weeks of returning to their schools, for the first time in nearly a year, some school...
School board members press health director about vaccines, safety of school reopenings
Alamance-Burlington school board members quizzed Alamance County health director Tony Lo Giudice during their latest work session about when ABSS teachers will be eligible...
