Monthly Archives: February 2024
Two-sport Williams athlete Milton Turner picks football for college commitment
Williams athlete Milton Turner’s high school football career was relatively short.
But he’s not done on the gridiron as he signed to play for Division...
Southern football players set plans for playing in college
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
There was a somewhat natural connection for Southern Alamance’s Jackson Parrish during the football recruiting process. His teammate,...
Non sequitur, illogical, or just plain crazy
Some of our readers have occasionally jested with this newspaper’s publisher and some of our reporters that we’ll never run out of stories, or...
County leaders meet in joint session over ABSS funding crisis
The feuds and theatrics were in abeyance on Thursday as the Alamance-Burlington school board sat down for a long heart-to-heart with Alamance County’s commissioners...
School board previews superintendent’s $57.7M county budget request
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard a preliminary county budget request that, if approved by Alamance County’s commissioners, would tack on an additional $6 million...
Town of Elon adopts its own tax on hotels and motels
New tax will impact only one hotel: Inn at Elon
The town of Elon has joined Burlington in approving a new municipal tax on hotels...
School board weighing superintendent’s proposed cuts to close $3.2M deficit
Alamance-Burlington school board members heard Tuesday afternoon a revised financial reduction plan that school officials say are needed in the next few months to...
ABSS to use $250K in emergency county funding for utilities – rather than preventing RIF
Alamance-Burlington school officials said Tuesday that a $250,000 lifeline that Alamance County’s commissioners agreed to give ABSS just last week – to stave off...
Elon town council mulls whether to give Gibsonville brewer second chance to plant beer garden
Elon’s town council has resolved to keep nursing a decision on whether to renew an arrangement with a Gibsonville-based brewer who was allowed to...
Eight wrestlers move on to states after regionals; championship rounds begin today
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Five wrestlers from Alamance County schools in Class 3-A and two others in Class 2-A advanced to this...
