Monthly Archives: March 2024
Do Airbnb rentals pay occupancy taxes? The answer appears to be complicated
Anyone who has ever used Airbnb knows that there’s a degree of mutual trust to every transaction made through this popular alternative to conventional...
Downtown businesswomen: 1; Rec dept.: 1
Downtown Graham businesswomen who objected last month to a half-day street closure on a Saturday in June that they said would cost them dearly...
Former coaches reminisce on Cummings’ first state basketball title
Cavaliers began championship burst 25 years ago – 1999: A Special Team
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Kim Annas was back in the gym at...
Ellison receives quilting award
Mrs. Lillian Ellison was given the inaugural award in her name, “Lillian Ellison Award for the Preservation of the Art of Quilting,” at the...
“A lasting gift. . .”
Sam Powell, who had been the Sesquicentennial co-chairman of the county celebration in 1999 had said in 2021, when there had been some advocacy...
Sesquicentennial Park should be fixed, not eliminated
In some large corporations, various CEOs have said that one of the most important functions of having good staff is to help the head...
Burlington’s city council: Let’s use up all the money, then ask the taxpayers to give us some more – with a property tax hike to boot
Frankly, we’re surprised at the restraint Burlington residents have shown, thus far, to the suggestion at last week’s city council meeting of putting a...
Burlington looks toward Nov. for $63.5M bond referendum with potential 13.4% property tax hike
Burlington’s elected leaders have taken their first tentative steps toward a bond referendum in this year’s general election that could raise $63.5 million for...
Even scaled-down, convention center seems a nonstarter with commissioners
Alamance County is apparently a poor choice of setting for a convention center on the order of the crowd-luring behemoths in Durham and Greensboro....
Supt.’s severance payment will use up school system’s fund balance
In voting 5-2 to accept the resignation of Alamance-Burlington superintendent Dr. Dain Butler at a special-called meeting on Monday, school board members also agreed...
