Monthly Archives: January 2022
ABSS proceeding with $26.9M in air quality upgrades but at half as many schools as first planned
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted this week to proceed with $26.9 million in air quality improvement projects – which represents a nearly $10 million...
Flat tire? That’s what man claims before being charged with breaking and entering car on Bass Mountain Road
The Alamance County sheriff's office has announced that a week ago, on January 11, they arrested an Elon man who, within another suspect, had...
County’s attempt to regulate RV parks also includes rural mobile home parks
Alamance County’s planning board has endorsed a raft of proposed upgrades to the county’s rules for manufactured homes and RV parks in response to...
Mebane police to re-start canine program, start using body cams, get new tasers
Mebane’s city council last week initiated several new and updated programs for the city’s police force based on actions at its most recent monthly...
Omicron pushes county’s test positivity rate to 32.6%
As the coronavirus pandemic approaches its second anniversary, the specter of COVID-19 has lost much of its death-like grip over the popular imagination.
After nearly...
Meet new Graham city councilman Joey Parsons
Parsons brings neighborhood concerns to new post on city council
Joey Parsons is a car guy – but so much more.
The 52-year-old Burlington native grew...
Meet new Graham city councilman Bobby Chin
Chin brings Army, planning board background to new role on city council
Bobby Chin, one of the two newest members of Graham’s city council, may...
Council turns down former councilman’s rezoning over concerns with lack of parking
Graham city council members turned down a request from one of their former members this week who sought to rezone a half-acre lot at...
Rezoning, annexation projects along Cherry Lane on Graham side of Hawfields-area industrial park postponed
Rezoning for Cherry Lane warehouse projects at planning board postponed until February; annexation requests postponed until March city council meeting
The developer of two large...
More committees, or fewer, to be discussed in Graham
Graham city council members outlined several additional advisory committees they want to consider establishing, with one member also proposing one possible consolidation of a...
