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Alamance Foods confirms expansion plans after getting state-level grant

Alamance Foods has announced that it will press ahead with a proposed expansion in Burlington thanks to the company’s receipt of a state level...

Textile company in Burlington to close, lay off 150 employees

A specialty textile manufacturing company has announced that it will close its plant along Anthony Street in Burlington and lay off 150 employees by...

Work proceeds on Chase Bank at New Market Square

It’s been a race against the weather, as well as a tight timetable, for construction crews at the New Market Square shopping center, where...

Commissioners appoint two chamber favorites to serve on tourism authority

A majority of Alamance County’s commissioners have approved two applicants endorsed by the local chamber of commerce to serve as industry representatives on the...

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ENOUGH!

This newspaper has covered local governments for the at least the past 69 years. We’ve seen all sorts of combinations of mayors and council members,...

Selling off Sesquicentennial Park: such a shame

All we can do is continually shake our head in disbelief and disgust that Graham’s city council can be so deaf to the overwhelming...

Here’s hoping ABSS is getting better than “low-performing”

Alamance-Burlington school officials and their supporters were practically giddy this week over what they consider to be, as the superintendent put it, “a banner...

School system’s unreasonably high budget demand enables commissioners to hold the line against ABSS spending

Our thanks this week to Alamance County’s commissioners who held the line against increased spending demands made by the Alamance-Burlington school board. State law has...
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Visiting judge dismisses wrongful termination suit against Elon University

A former accounting professor who sued Elon University for alleged wrongful termination earlier this year has lost both rounds in his legal fight: his...

Talleys prevail in suit lodged by two other Graham developers

Former Graham mayor Jennifer Talley and her husband, Chuck Talley, who own several real estate development companies based in Graham, have prevailed in a...

N.C. Court of Appeals decision critical of district court judge Katie Overby’s handling of divorce settlement case: “manifestly unsupported by reason”

Appeals court reverses Alamance County judge’s denial of motion to set aside equitable distribution order in divorce settlement The North Carolina Court of Appeals has...

N.C. Court of Appeals vacates Alamance County district court judge’s order denying retroactive child support

The state’s second-highest court has vacated a ruling in a civil dispute over post-separation and divorce child support entered early last year by Alamance...

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