Monthly Archives: September 2023
State’s second-highest court rejects Graham city manager Megan Garner’s appeal
She wanted $150K severance package voted by 3 Rural Hall town council members the night she, and they, resigned; state's second highest court agrees...
Mebane city council votes 3-2 to pay $1,000 to join racial equity group
A divided city council, reflecting a very divided audience’s reaction to the issue, voted 3-2 Tuesday night to spend $1,000 for the city to...
Select Bank to move to South Church Street location
Burlington's Select Bank will move from its current location at 166 Huffman Mill Road to a larger, but now vacant, bank building nearby on...
Legal Notices, Thursday, September 7, 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...
Commissioners vote another $3.9M for mold cleanup in ABSS schools on Tuesday; total now over $20M
The cost of mold removal has continued to grow for the Alamance-Burlington school system, as more and more of the school system’s facilities have...
Four-year graduation rate declines for second year in a row
The Alamance-Burlington school system’s four-year graduation rate declined for a second consecutive year by six-tenths of a percentage point, from 85.9 percent in 2021-22...
Nearly half of county schools receive D & F school performance grades for 2022-23
Seventeen of the 35 Alamance-Burlington schools received a school performance grade of D or F for the 2022-23 school year, based on annual testing...
Elections have consequences, all right; so do not having any
There’s an oft-quoted adage, most often used by career politicians, that “elections have consequences,” by which they usually mean that since they’ve won, they...
Does school board member with no children/grandchildren in ABSS schools have any more sympathy/insight than members who do?
We don’t know Brandy Whittaker, one of the ABSS parents who took the podium at last week’s school board meeting to upbraid the school...
New chicken restaurant heading to Mebane
A new chicken restaurant, featuring Peruvian Charcoal Chicken, has announced plans to open in Mebane.
Alpaca Peruvian Charcoal Chicken is adding its 14th location in...
