Monthly Archives: November 2023
Another ABSS “hair on fire” funding emergency
Alamance County commissioners have been relatively patient, in our view, in hearing the repeated – always urgent and almost monthly – pleas (often expressed...
Expanded Sterigenics facility expected to create 20 new jobs
Sterigenics, a medical sterilization company that has operated a facility off Jimmie Kerr Road in Haw River since 1983 has asked the city of...
Elon beats Presbyterian at buzzer in basketball
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Trying desperately across the final 12 minutes to avoid any sort of dramatics, the Elon men’s basketball team...
Mebane city council approves rezoning for construction of “transload” depot
Mebane’s city council has approved rezoning of a 3.8-acre tract beside the Cambro manufacturing plant off West Holt Street in order to allow the...
Graham city council approves rezoning for 42 townhomes
Graham’s city council has agreed to rezoning for a proposed new 42-unit townhouse subdivision off NC 54, to allow a so-called infill project that...
To fence, or not to fence around a retention pond
Local municipalities apparently have different priorities or preferences when it comes to how to landscape around so-called retention ponds.
Graham’s city council spent almost half...
Mebane city council approves rezoning for concrete plant
Mebane’s city council has approved rezoning that will allow an Asheboro concrete company to build its second plant on a lot at 920 Mattress...
TBS senior sets college hoops path, follows former Eastern Alamance star
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Zion Walker has been on a state championship team as the headline player for The Burlington School boys’...
Encore Burlington city council race: Dejuana Bigelow wins in second council outing
It may not be the length of her political resume that has endeared Dejuana Bigelow to voters in Burlington. But her life experience does...
Encore race in Elon: third time’s the charm for Michael Woods
The provincial squabbles of municipal government might seem light years removed from the rough-and-tumble world of labor negotiations.
But the chasm between these two realms...
