Monthly Archives: January 2022
Gibsonville aldermen vote themselves $700 raise
Gibsonville aldermen voted Monday night to give themselves a $700 annual raise, as recommended by mayor Lenny Williams.
Aldermen had been paid $2,700 annually, with...
Burlington city council approves $1.3M in pay raises for police dept.
Burlington’s city council has formally approved nearly $1.3 million in pay raises for the city’s police department in order to reverse a deluge of...
Mebane council asks for new policy allowing prayer, not just moment of silence
Mebane’s city council decided Monday night to resurrect and revise the tradition of having an opening prayer at its monthly meetings.
At December’s meeting, mayor...
Jonathan White, new Mebane city councilman, hopes to stay grounded while serving
You wouldn’t know it just by looking but newly-elected Mebane city councilman Jonathan White – an engineer by trade – is as much at...
Montrena Hadley, new Mebane city council member, has deep roots in public service
Growing up in eastern North Carolina, Montrena Hadley might not have known she would one day secure her place in history in Mebane, some...
Top Burlington officials hear Cone’s concerns about surge in new Covid cases
A conference call with representatives of the region’s largest hospital chain has apparently left Burlington’s municipal leaders feeling a bit queasy about the latest...
Gibsonville aldermen move forward with two property purchases
Gibsonville’s board of aldermen moved forward Monday night with plans to purchase two properties along Minneola Street, with a long-term plan to use the...
Three rezoning requests draw little interest, opposition; easily approved by Burlington city council
Burlington’s city council extended its unanimous blessing to three rezoning requests at its latest regularly-scheduled meeting on Tuesday.
These three requests included a tweak to...
Gibsonville aldermen OK two rezoning requests for new subdivisions
Gibsonville aldermen approved rezoning for two new subdivisions this week that could bring hundreds more homes to the rapidly-growing town on the border of...
Council decides city will demolish, rather than renovate, former Moorefield Florist building downtown
Burlington’s city council has decided to raze an old downtown florist building that it had originally purchased in 2017 in order to expand the...
