Monthly Archives: November 2021
Police chief seeks civilians to push paper so officers can spend more time on patrol
Burlington’s city council has given the city’s police department a green light to add four new civilian positions in order to relieve some of...
Commissioners boot appointee off planning board for chronic absences
Woody Allen's adage that 90 percent of success in life is just showing up took on new meaning this week when the county's commissioners...
Dozens of residents, non-profits line up with requests to commissioners for how to spend county’s Covid relief funds
The members of Alamance County’s governing board were unusually tight-lipped on Wednesday as dozens of nonprofit representatives and others shared their suggestions for the...
Scenes from Saturday’s Veterans Parade in downtown Graham
Marching bands. Flag girls. Fire trucks. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Those are common elements to many parades.
But what was different Saturday in Graham...
Legal Notices, Thursday, November 18, 2021
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
PUBLIC NOTICE
TOWN OF HAW RIVER
Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the Town of Haw River and other interested parties...
Rash, impulsive policy-making – even for ostensibly good purposes – doesn’t serve Graham well
We love and appreciate veterans, and we think most people – at least those around Graham and Alamance County – do, too.
But some of...
Security – or secrecy?
We’ve mentioned before over the years our ongoing irritation at the increasing tendency among government agencies to cordon off more and more areas within...
National co. Thermo Fisher Scientific makes it official: Mebane is to be site of $192.5M new manufacturing plant with 150-200 jobs
Thermo Fisher Scientific made it official late Friday afternoon and provided two new dimensions to the previously-reported news that the company has selected Mebane...
Amazon center now open
Amazon trucks are already lining up. The distribution facility received its certificate of occupancy from the city of Graham. The facility is on the...
Elon fire chief retiring after 45-year career
With his retirement at the end of this month, Elon fire chief Alva Sizemore, 61, has been pondering the countless changes he’s seen in...
