Monthly Archives: December 2022

The Kiwanis Club of Burlington honored yet another pillar of the community last week when it formally named F.D. Hornaday III as its Citizen of the Year for 2022. A native of Alamance County, Hornaday has earned the club’s kudos for his past service on...

Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 4-3 Monday night to only allow rising seniors the option to remain at their existing high schools once the high school redistricting plan takes effect for the 2023-24 school year. Voting to limit that option to rising seniors were: school...

By Bob Sutton Special to The Alamance News Owen Nye is making the most of his time in the pool, reaching a national level of recognition. “I feel like with swimming, every day of training is what you get out of it,” the Burlington teenager said. Nye has...

By Bob Sutton Special to The Alamance News Karsyn Johnson accepts that her role as a three-sport athlete at Eastern Alamance has a different twist. “I do feel I persevere because it is different to be a female on the football team,” Johnson said. As a senior, that...

The office of Governor Roy Cooper has announced the multi-million-dollar expansion of a Burlington-based food processing plant that promises to add some 135 new jobs to local labor market. According to the governor’s office, Alamance Foods has accepted a state-level subsidy to defray the cost...

PUBLIC NOTICE The Schedules, Standards, and Rules to be used in the 2023 Revaluation of real property in Alamance County have been adopted and are open to examination in the Office of the Tax Administrator, 124 W. Elm Street, Graham, NC 27253. A property owner who...

We’re certainly glad that at least a majority of school board members demonstrated both fiscal responsibility and common sense this week. The question was how many students should be moved in implementing the new school attendance zones, specifically between Southern and Eastern to the new...

We were amused, but not particularly surprised, by this week’s newest aggrieved group, substitute teachers, who somehow figure they are entitled to some sort of raise – since the school board recently voted to give teachers a December bonus. Now the fact that it is...

There’s an old expression, more commonly used in northern areas with larger Jewish populations, “What am I, chopped liver,” by which the speaker questions why he or she was being ignored during a particular group discussion. We can understand if county commissioners felt that way...

By Charity L. Cohen Special to The Alamance News Kurt Pearson never thought the short story he wrote, on a dare from his daughter Mia six years ago, would turn into a full-blown novel. Today, with three years novel under his belt and counting, Pearson can’t see...