Monthly Archives: January 2023

A long-time eyesore in Graham will be getting a makeover, thanks to a local developer. David Morton, who owns Holly Hill Mall and several strip shopping centers in Burlington and Graham, has bought the former Sagebrush restaurant site off South Main Street in Graham, just...

QUESTION: What's the land being cleared for just below Sheetz on NC 49 in Burlington? ANSWER:  Site preparations are now underway on a storage facility along Maple Avenue that had a bit of a bumpy ride when it went through Burlington’s zoning process due to...

Slurpee aficionados in Burlington may feel like they’re in 7-Eleventh Heaven right now as the convenience store chain presses ahead with the construction of two new locations along a relatively short stretch of Maple Avenue. Right now, work seems to have more or less wrapped...

A top-ranking executive with Samet, the Greensboro-based contractor that’s building the county’s seventh high school along South N.C. Highway 119, assured Alamance-Burlington school board members Monday night that construction is on schedule. Construction of the $67 million Southeast High School started in late May 2021...

By Bob Sutton Special to The Alamance News The girls’ basketball teams from Western Alamance and Williams might be playing for second place in the Central Carolina 3-A Conference when they meet next week. The clash comes Tuesday night at Western. It will be a rematch of Williams’...

By Bob Sutton Special to The Alamance News Now that Elon’s losing streak ended and the Phoenix experienced the good vibes again, maybe there’s an appreciation for what it took to secure a Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball victory. “It has been a long journey and you’ve...

Alamance-Burlington school board members heard Monday night from eight speakers – five students, two coaches, and one parent, all from the Southern attendance zone – who urged them to reconsider allowing underclassmen to stay at their current high schools once Southeast High School opens...

Some still pressing to add juniors to 'grandfathering' exemption A decision that seemed to have been settled a month ago – to only allow rising seniors to remain at their current high schools once Southeast High School opens and new high school attendance lines go...

By Bob Sutton Special to The Alamance News Former Turrentine Middle School teacher and coach Ron Davis and longtime Eastern Alamance football coach and athletic director John Kirby were selected for induction into the George Whitfield Hall of Fame earlier this month in Goldsboro. Davis retired from...

Swepsonville, Haw River, Ossipee, & Mebane also above county's overall average Some of Alamance County’s leaders were noticeably rattled last week when they learned that the assessed value of the county’s tax base had shot up by nearly 80 percent since the county’s tax office...