Monthly Archives: June 2025
Southern Alamance alums find summer baseball outlet on American Legion team in Randolph County
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Several former Southern Alamance baseball players sought a place to play summer baseball, and they’re doing it together.
The...
Change in football coach at Eastern Alamance confirmed
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Mitch Mitchener is no longer football coach at Eastern Alamance after one season.
Todd Davis, athletics director for Alamance-Burlington...
Editorial views on the county budget and property tax rate increase
Editorials related to the commissioners' consideration of the budget – and the ultimate 3-2 vote in favor of a 2½-cent higher property tax rate:
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Burlington to sue developer who’s left new subdivision’s streets, sidewalks unfinished
Burlington’s elected leaders have decided to take legal action against a developer who has failed to complete the roads and sidewalks in one area...
Commissioners vote, 3-2, for $242M budget, up ABSS allocation, with 2½-cent tax hike
Alamance County’s commissioners have adopted a new budget that adds 2.5 cents (or about 5.3 percent) to the county’s property tax rate and digs...
School board initiates dispute process to challenge county budget’s ABSS allotment as inadequate
Alamance-Burlington school board members have voted, 7-0, to begin the statutory dispute process of challenging the county commissioners’ adoption of the budget that school...
Deputy sheriff receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Alamance County Sheriff’s Office SRO Deputy Michael Paschal received the Michael G. Adkins Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent North Carolina D.A.R.E. Officers’ Association...
Burlington city council approves industrial use on lakefront tract in eastern Guilford County
Developer hopes to attract a small data center to 40-acre site
Burlington’s city council has given its unanimous nod to a request for medium industrial...
Burlington expands permitted uses on vacant Church Street lot
Burlington’s city council has expanded the allowable uses on a vacant, commercial parcel at a South Church Street intersection that also serves as the...
Dispute resolution process used often, but rarely results in litigation
North Carolina’s school funding dispute resolution process had been initiated 40 times during the two decades between the law’s passage in 1997 and 2015...
