Monthly Archives: November 2025
Western soccer team reaches defining week of the season
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
The Western Alamance boys’ soccer team enters the final week of the season with its big objective still...
Recount in Graham council race to take place on Wednesday
14-vote margin separates second-, third-place finishers
Alamance County’s board of elections will hold a special meeting on Wednesday to address one final loose end from...
Williams, Southern power into third round of playoffs; Southeast, Eastern fall
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Williams and Southern Alamance football teams racked up large victories in their first games in the Class 6-A...
Enthusiasm for sheriff’s race so high some voters wanted to cast their votes a year early – last week
The race for Alamance County’s sheriff got off to a bit of a false start when voters went to the polls for last Tuesday’s...
Burlington’s new city manager rose through the ranks to clinch top job
Upon his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Sparky Anderson, the legendary field manager for the Cincinnati Reds, credited his own professional success...
Swepsonville to consider annexation, rezoning for Sheetz on Tuesday night
Swepsonville’s town council is scheduled to hold a public hearing at its next meeting Tuesday night
on an annexation petition and rezoning request that would...
Four county high schools play tonight in state playoffs
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
Mid-Carolina Conference champion Williams and runner-up Southern Alamance join the football playoff mix this week following first-round byes.
Southeast...
Swepsonville attorney, newspaper publisher differ on legality of town council’s closed meetings
Swepsonville town attorney Paul Koonts is insistent that the town council did not violate the state’s Open Meetings Law in either of two portions...
Yeah, it’s only Swepsonville; but small towns have to obey the law, too
We hate to “go after little towns” when they don’t comply with the North Carolina Open Meetings Law, but everyone – both small towns...
Arthur ‘Gordon’ Loy
Arthur ‘Gordon’ Loy passed away on November 13 at the age of 89. Gordon was born in Alamance County on March 20, 1936. He...
