Monthly Archives: October 2025
Clover Garden following Biden’s 2024 rewrite of Title IX
Clover Garden School appears to be relying on an April 2024 rewrite of Title IX of the federal Education Amendments of 1972 that prohibits...
Work to get underway on future home for ACC’s A.I. program
Construction on the “third floor upfit” for Alamance Community College’s Biotechnology Center of Excellence is expected to get underway in early 2026 in order...
Elon town council finalizes purchase of LabCorp building for future town hall/police space
Elon’s town council has firmed up a $3 million deal that its members originally accepted four months ago in order to procure some roomier...
One vacancy assures at least one new Elon town councilman; three running for two seats
Elon voters will get to have three candidates to choose from to fill two open seats on the town’s nonpartisan, five-member council in this...
Two newcomers say they have dropped out of contention for three Mebane city council seats, leaving three incumbents
What started off in July as a potentially lively contest for three Mebane city council seats looks like it may end without any challengers...
Excerpts from Chapter 5, Action Plan, of Mebane 2045 Comprehensive Plan (draft): Goals and Projects
GOAL #1: Vibrant downtown
1.01: Implement key and feasible recommendations from Downtown Vision Plan (2018) The 2018 Downtown Vision Plan includes a number of...
Wet and winners: Western claims soccer league title
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Members of the Western Alamance boys’ soccer team were all wet and it didn’t matter as the Warriors...
Whitfield, Moorehead post best scores among area golfers in states
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Ashtyn Whitfield of Western Alamance placed fifth in the Class 5-A state tournament for girls’ golf, while two...
Beware “comprehensive” municipal planning documents
It’s hard to know who has more empty rhetoric: municipal planning consultants or school system bureaucrats (see separate editorial below). Both must have gone...
A failing school system plans for more failure
We’ve been amused, though not terribly surprised, by the school system’s avoidance of any real accountability for the absolutely dismal academic performance reported by...
