Thursday, June 1, 2023

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BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT

Council expands uses allowed at retail center on Garden Road

Burlington’s city council has agreed to adjust the zoning designation for a small retail center at Garden Road’s intersection with Boone Station Drive to...

Commissioners, Mebane council members view site for potential “transload” rail facility

Each board will be asked to contribute $300,000 to supplement $2.6M from state A group of Alamance County's commissioners and Mebane's city council spent an...

Commissioners, Mebane council train their sights on potential location for new cargo depot

New ‘transload’ facility would provide local rail access for industry Alamance County’s leaders will make tracks to Mebane later this week to check out a...

Precor files plan to close Whitsett plant, lay off 123 employees

Precor, an exercise equipment manufacturing company with a plant in Whitsett, has notified the state Department of Commerce that it will close its plant...

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No progress on cutting county manager’s proposed tax hike; in fact, regression

Alamance County property owners might as well get ready now to fork over more of their hard-earned money for higher county property taxes. County commissioners...

Looks like it’s time for taxpayers to get out the pitch forks, tar, feathers, & rail

Well, we admit, we are absolutely flabbergasted. Alamance County manager Heidi York unveiled her first county budget this week.  (She started with the county just...

Gatewood: a fine run at ACC

The information about his decision to retire June 30 came last week too close to deadline for us to comment, but we don’t want...

More HUGE municipal property tax increases; this week: Elon & Graham

We noted last week our long-held suspicion that local officials would attempt to use the property revaluation as a pretext to slip in some...
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COURTS & CRIMES

Case against Graham firefighter accused of stalking dismissed – by the accuser’s attorney

A complaint for a domestic violence protective order against a Graham fireman who had been accused of stalking a Burlington woman was dismissed Monday...

ABSS files motion to dismiss lawsuit over decades-old claim of sexual abuse by Graham High School teacher

The Alamance-Burlington school board has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed early last year by a former Graham High School student who...

2020 BLM protester files (another) lawsuit against sheriff, after withdrawing earlier litigation

A frequent protester at Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Graham during the second half of 2020 has filed a new lawsuit against Alamance...

ABSS seeks dismissal of suit over assault on student at Broadview Middle School

The Alamance-Burlington school board has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed earlier this year against ABSS and a now-former teacher who was...

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