Monthly Archives: August 2023
School board approves $3.5M contract for mold remediation at Broadview, Cummings, & Williams
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 6-0 Monday night to approve a contract of up to $3.5 million – to be funded from a portion...
JOINT MEETING PART 2: Commissioners vote another $5M for mold cleanup, $8.5M for week; to resume meeting Fri.
Next joint meeting set for Friday
The local school system’s trouble with mold has continued to spread like a fungus this week as a dozen...
City council sets in motion condemnation and demo of vacant, dilapidated house at 608 Giles Street
Mebane city government officials have grown tired of waiting for the owners of a dilapidated house on Giles Street in the West End community...
If they don’t want to fill a school board seat (at all), just say so
We don’t have an especially strong feeling about whether the school board should appoint someone to fill the seat left vacant by longtime member...
On Caesar’s wife and the need to learn from history
We’ve often written of our belief that public officials and their spouses ought to remain “as pure as Caesar’s wife,” as the old saying...
It’s always. . . “for the children” – especially when it’s politically expedient
We could have written most of the story from this week’s joint meetings between county commissioners and school board members before the first member...
JOINT MEETING PART 1: Commissioners vote $3.5 million for mold cleanup at three more schools
All members of the Alamance-Burlington school board, the county commissioners, and the three members of the state's legislative delegation met Monday afternoon to discuss...
Legal Notices, Thursday, August 31, 2023
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON
ZONING VARIANCE REQUEST
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Adjustment of the Town of Swepsonville has called for the...
Southern Middle School asst. principal fired following arrest for alleged felony sex act with a student
Southern Middle School assistant principal Tyler Kelly has been fired, based on the personnel report that Alamance-Burlington school board members approved at their latest...
New tennis museum rounds up Alamance County tennis history, memories
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Many of the players, coaches, and personalities who created special moments in Alamance County tennis for decades gathered...
