Monthly Archives: June 2024
Hall of Famer Jim Thome reflects on time in Burlington
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Jim Thome returned to Burlington more than three decades after an early assignment in professional baseball brought him...
Gibsonville to consider permanent weekend social district
Gibsonville’s town council, which established an “event-based” social district in April, is apparently ready to consider expanding the idea so that the social district...
Graham businessman makes plea to leave Sesquicentennial Park as “green, public space”
Local downtown businessman and former city councilman Griffin McClure approached the city council last week to advocate for preserving the Sesquicentennial Park on the...
Were there any “promises” made, restrictions on use of the state grant?
During last week’s Graham city council discussion, Graham mayor Jennifer Talley repeatedly said that she wanted the stamped crosswalks in downtown Graham because that’s...
Residents honored for their help with fire prevention initiative
It wasn’t a trail of smoke but a trail of smoke detectors that one area resident left in her path when she recently answered...
Council member tries to debunk rumors of police profiling during Juneteenth bash
A member of Burlington’s city council spoke up this week to quash a viral rumor that the city’s police department had ramped up patrols...
Tax & budget votes reveal actual fiscal conservatives vs. merely rhetorical ones
We warned last week that a big property tax increase was on the horizon, and this week it became a reality.
We’re disappointed in the...
School system leadership, not legislative report, is the real joke
It’s hard to know where to start this week with all the outrageous statements and actions by local politicians and bureaucrats.
However, it seems to...
County manager’s sneaky, backdoor scheme to conceal incentives information from taxpayers is a real insult
Well, we’ll have to chalk this up as a rare occurrence, if not a first.
While expressing our deep disappointment in the decision of commissioner...
State grant dollars are Graham’s, not its mayor’s
We don’t seem to be conveying very well to Graham mayor Jennifer Talley what it is that we find objectionable about her insistence on...
