Monthly Archives: July 2023
EAST-WEST ALL-STAR FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Williams teammates hold differing perspectives for upcoming NC East-West Game
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
There are different approaches for former Williams football teammates Jaelan Brown and Grayson Loy when it comes to...
EAST-WEST ALL-STAR BASKETBALL PREVIEW: Williams’ Scott sees value in NC East-West basketball competition
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Briahna Scott is embracing a step up in competition before she plays college basketball.
The Williams player will be...
Fireman in domestic dispute makes charges against superiors at ‘name clearing’ hearing
A former Graham firefighter, Robert (“Rob) Patterson, who was fired this spring, got an opportunity to clear his name during a special hearing Wednesday...
How ‘woke’ does Mebane need to be?
We had hoped that much of the national nonsense on various issues, most recently and especially racial, would stay far away from Alamance County.
But,...
Supt. secretly recorded meetings with commissioners
Most of Alamance County’s commissioners told The Alamance News this week that they were stunned – and several, deeply concerned – to learn that...
Southern gets new basketball coach
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Dylan Eppley sees his new job as boys’ basketball coach at Southern Alamance as an ideal position.
“It just...
Warehouse planned near Cherry Lane & Gov. Scott Farm Road where earlier project withdrawn after neighborhood opposition
Residents along Cherry Lane, especially in the Old Fields subdivision, probably felt that they had prevailed more than a year ago when an Atlanta...
On Friday, first day for 2023 candidate filings: most incumbent mayors file for re-election
Local mayors were among the first to line up to file for re-election at the Alamance County Board of Elections on Friday.
Municipal election filing...
Elon makes historic hire for next A.D.
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Jennifer Strawley is coming from Miami to be the next athletics director at Elon University.
Her hiring as the...
Elon’s mayor pro tem announces retirement; more incumbents join the 2023 election fray
The ongoing filing period for candidates in this year’s municipal elections has already seen a whole host of office holders sign up to defend...
