Monthly Archives: July 2025
UPDATE: Three arrested after ramming passenger car through front door of Burlington gun shop, stealing weapons
Police in Burlington are trying to track down a group of perpetrators who pillaged an area gun shop last week after they crashed a...
We print local news, not press releases for government officials
Printed elsewhere on this page is a letter, emailed Thursday morning from county attorney Rik Stevens, expressing his strenuous objection to what he characterized...
Burlington’s pickleball boondoggle goes from bad to worse
We’ve long thought that the city of Burlington’s infatuation with pickleball, and the city council’s commitment to spend millions of tax dollars on additional...
Man charged Friday with rape and sex offense
A sheriff's department investigation that began with a report of breaking and entering in southern Alamance County has resulted in the arrest of a...
ABSS board chairman’s partisan actions reveal yet another reason to go to partisan school board elections
We’ve increasingly begun to believe that Alamance County lawmakers should go ahead and introduce legislation to convert the Alamance-Burlington school board into a partisan...
The lady in the window is gone
For decades, from at least the 1990s through early 2022, people coming to The Alamance News office on West Elm Street would likely be...
BCA alum vaults to new heights with Duke
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Jonathan Horn’s big moment in the Atlantic Coast Conference track and field championships came in nerve-wracking fashion as...
City of Graham agrees to reconsider waiver of sidewalks at County Ford along Auto Park Drive
The Graham city council has agreed to reconsider a request for a variance (i.e., a waiver) from a requirement to build sidewalks along 728...
Duke/Novant suggests that a new hospital brand would improve patient care, potentially drive down costs
Adding competition in Alamance County would be good for residents
The two hospital systems that are competing to build a hospital in Mebane – Cone...
Cone says not clear whether new hospital is to be Duke, or Novant
Cone says Duke/Novant application has "fundamental inconsistencies"
In written comments it has filed with the state about a competitor’s proposal to build a hospital in...
