Monthly Archives: February 2023
Cummings, Williams football fans likely to be disappointed by future football schedule regarding the two in-town rivals
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Football teams from Cummings and Williams high schools won’t meet for the next two seasons after North Carolina...
ACC trustees approve preliminary designs for two more bond projects
Alamance Community College trustees voted unanimously, 10-0, this week to approve the preliminary design plans for two projects that are financed by the $39.6...
Preliminary county budget request for ABSS totals $50.7 million – minus any capital outlay
Alamance-Burlington school board members Tuesday reviewed a potential county budget request for the upcoming fiscal year that totals $50.7 million, a figure which excludes...
Property tax appeals grow: now more than 1,400
The county’s tax office is slowly chipping away at the mound of revaluation appeals that area residents have filed since they began to receive...
School board won’t expand ‘seniors only’ redistricting exemption for 2023-24
Alamance-Burlington school board members this week upheld their earlier decision to allow only rising seniors to remain at their current high schools once Southeast...
Burlington police chief to retire
Burlington police chief Brian Long has announced his intention to retire from atop the department where he's worked his entire 28-year law enforcement career...
Mebane Sheetz ready to re-open (next week)
The Sheetz in Mebane – closed since September for demolition of the previous store, built in 2005, and building an updated replacement – is...
What’s going in off East Gilbreath Street?
QUESTION: What’s being built along Gilbreath Street where earth movers have begun clearing land?
ANSWER: There are actually two residential projects in close proximity along...
Why has grading work taken so long on Hanford Road?
QUESTION: What is planned for the land along Hanford Road that has been being cleared and graded for about a year near Nall Memorial...
What’s happening beside Morinaga off I-85/40?
QUESTION: What’s being built beside Morinaga along the interstate on the edge of Mebane?
ANSWER: From the interstate, the Bobbitt Construction sign and the work...
