Monthly Archives: September 2021
ACC trustees consider increasing student fees
Alamance Community College’s trustees are being asked to consider doubling student fees to keep pace with ACC’s expenses.
Currently, ACC charges a single flat student...
School board OKs bonuses for school nurses and bus drivers
Alamance-Burlington school board members have voted unanimously to award a $500 monthly bonus, which will be made retroactive to August, to 36 school nurses...
County draws on pandemic relief funds to replace health dept.’s HVAC system
Alamance County’s board of commissioners has agreed to dip into the county’s cache of federal pandemic relief to pay for a long-deferred overhaul of...
Simple, Sweet Energy Bites
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(Culinary.net) Having enough energy and fuel to make it through a long day can be challenging. No matter if you’re a stay-at-home...
Council votes, 3-2, to rescind grant application after businessman’s objection to median in front of his business
Major thoroughfare would have narrowed lanes, bike path, median
Burlington’s city council has agreed to put the brakes on a federal grant application that city...
Supt.: Rebranding campaign, new logo will help improve school system
Matters of promotion and marketing are, at most, a mere marginal note in a strategic plan that the Alamance-Burlington school system has recently developed.
But...
Some school board members concerned that quarantined students have received no instruction since school started
Several Alamance-Burlington school board members seemed flabbergasted last week to learn that the school system’s administration hasn’t put a plan in place to ensure...
BACKGROUND: The candidates, questionnaire, and the newspaper’s coverage
Burlington voters will head to the polls on October 5 to narrow their sections for mayor and city council.
Five candidates have filed for mayor...
Biographical information on Burlington mayoral and city council candidates
BURLINGTON MAYORAL CANDIDATES
Ian Baltutis
Full name: Ian Baltutis
Nickname, if any: N/A
Born: Date of birth: August 10, 1985
Place of birth: Minneapolis, Hennipen County, Minnesota
Education: Washburn Senior...
Donations pour into campaigns for Burlington municipal races
Barely two months have elapsed since the electoral sluices opened in Burlington and released a veritable flood of contenders for the city’s mayor and...
