Monthly Archives: April 2022

Alamance-Burlington school board members have given preliminary approval to several proposed policy changes, including one that eliminates a 365-day athletic ineligibility period for transfer students who are children of ABSS employees. Voting 6-1 to approve first reading of the revision that would waive the 365-day...

Commissioners say no to bailing out adult daycare and raises for landfill staff Alamance County’s commissioners kept a rather firm grip on the public purse this week as they deflected a number of “urgent” spending requests amid their own preparations for the county’s next annual...

Two attorneys in downtown Graham are fighting over who should get to keep a $28,000 retainer fee that a client paid last year. Now the client, Gary Nelson Price of 820 Hartley Hill Court, High Point, has filed a lawsuit in Alamance County superior court,...

Idea that was originally portrayed as free could now cost county $6.5 million A small army of veterans came up against some unexpected resistance this week when they confronted Alamance County’s elected leaders with a request on behalf of their less fortunate comrades. The county’s board...

Graham mayor Jennifer Talley, joined by other council members during a meeting Thursday night, expressed irritation that a $2.00 per hour raised authorized by the council earlier this year for all city employees had been interpreted in a way “not intended” by the council,...

Officials say expensive upgrades needed at city's wastewater treatment plant Graham residents could be facing a 52 percent increase in their monthly water and sewer bills – and soon. APRIL 21 UPDATE: Graham officials insisted Thursday night (April 21) that The Alamance News has overstated the impact of...

QUESTION: What’s going on with all the clear-cutting near the Ashley Woods subdivision in Elon? Is it true the developer for Owen Park subdivision, which backs up to Ashley Woods, has been clear-cutting a forested area and illegally using a stub road to access...

Special allocation for road paving increase doubled, to $1.2 million A projected surplus of about $4 million has sent Burlington’s leaders scrambling to spend this spare cash on deferred maintenance needs ranging from street paving to security upgrades for the city’s computer network. Burlington’s city council...

Readers of this newspaper may wonder if they fell asleep recently like Rip Van Winkle of old – or, perhaps, whether ACC officials did. In the Washington Irving classic, Van Winkle falls asleep for 20 years, but the local version only takes a month or...

There’s an old adage that “A fool and his money are soon parted.” Apparently, an even faster separation can occur when government officials have the money and those dollars belong to the taxpayers. Nowhere was that more evident than this week in Burlington where city council...