Monthly Archives: June 2025
Harolyn Ropp
A graveside service will be held at Mt. Zion Community Cemetery in Cornelius, North Carolina on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. for...
Kimley “Kim” Craig Hensley, Sr.
Kimley “Kim” Craig Hensley, Sr., age 73, of Elon, NC, passed peacefully from this life into the arms of his loving Savior on Monday,...
Commissioner Pam Thompson shifts from GOP to unaffiliated
A recent change in one local official’s voter registration has brought an abrupt end to the Republican Party’s six-and-a-half-year monopoly on Alamance County’s governing...
ABSS moves closer to limiting access to cell phones in school
Alamance-Burlington school officials are moving closer to developing a phone-free schools policy for students.
On Tuesday, ABSS launched two separate surveys that ask staff and...
The problem with county budget is too much spending, not too little taxing
County commissioner Ed Priola has proven himself a real friend of, and advocate for, Alamance County’s taxpayers this week.
We commend his efforts to dig...
Priola outlines trends, proposes his own spending proposal for keeping current tax rate
Members of the general public weren’t the only ones who weighed in on the county manager’s proposed budget when Alamance County’s board of commissioners...
Rescue Squad, other nonprofits also defended during public hearing
Another substantial bloc of Monday’s audience spoke up in defense of the nonprofit organizations that been nicked by the county manager’s pen.
Meredith Peffley, the...
County urges low-income seniors to apply for homestead exemption to cut bite of property taxes
The plight of property taxpayers has been a recurring theme in the debate over Alamance County’s annual budget. But regardless of what, if any,...
Dozens of speakers voice support for ABSS, libraries, other spending priorities during 3-hour public hearing on county budget
Hundreds of people descended on Alamance County’s Historic Court House this week as the county’s board of commissioners invited area residents to add their...
Supporters want “full funding” for ABSS
The board of commissioners also endured the equivalent of a trip to the principal’s office from numerous backers of the Alamance Burlington’s school system.
Robert...
