Monthly Archives: March 2022

Alamance-Burlington school board members heard from four ABSS teachers – including the 2020 and 2021 teachers of the year – about how the board and administration could make their jobs easier, amid what they described as a growing list of non-instructional duties they face,...

A resident of the countryside beyond Burlington has asked Alamance County’s board of commissioners to slap a metaphorical silencer on the outdoor shooting ranges that operate outside the county’s cities and towns. Darrell Russell of McCray Road approached the commissioners on Monday to request some...

Judge requires plaintiffs to bear 20 percent of cost of depositions The latest filings in an ongoing federal suit over the march in downtown Graham on October 31, 2020 that ended with pepper spray reveal that the attorneys for the plaintiffs and the city of...

UPDATE, ONE MONTH LATER: The sheriff's office indicates that five of the original 12 suspects remain at large, and the public's assistance is still being sought to locate them.  The other seven have been located and arrested.   Alamance County sheriff's deputies are looking for the...

An Alamance County sheriff's deputy was slightly injured after making a traffic stop in Burlington Wednesday afternoon when the driver attempted to flee, carrying the deputy stuck on the driver's door for about 25 feet; the deputy was ultimately able to enter the moving...

A request from a charter school developer set off a spat among two members of Alamance County’s governing board that, in a different setting, might’ve earned both of them a trip to the principal’s office. As it was, commissioners Pam Thompson and Bill Lashley spent...

Steel beams have been erected and exterior concrete walls are underway on the Alamance-Burlington school system’s seventh high school that’s being built along N.C. Highway 119 in Swepsonville. Construction of the new high school remains on schedule and within the $67 million budget, based on...

What's the construction work going on behind Mebane's ABC store and beside King Tire of Mebane? Work is underway on a new ABC store, to be built behind the current store, at 7713 US 70, on the Orange County side of Mebane. Mebane’s city council unanimously...

Homeowner and intruder apparently injured A home burglary along Sellars Mill Road ended in chaos on Wednesday when a member of Burlington’s police force fired his service weapon while the suspect and one of the home’s residents were apparently struggling over a gun. The events which...

Alamance-Burlington school board members are scheduled to continue discussing, and possibly vote on, a county budget request at their upcoming meeting Monday night. Meanwhile, school board members tentatively agreed during their latest discussion last week to reduce their county budget request by about $2.5 million,...