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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...

Burlington business sues online payment co. over $122K in unauthorized withdrawals

A Burlington business owner is suing the parent company for the widely-used online payment platform, Square, to recover alleged outstanding payments that she says...

New zoning request buoys hopes of Lakeside Avenue development

A proposed residential development in Burlington that sunk like a stone when it debuted three years ago has resurfaced in a much-altered form –...

Burlington to seek state grant for Alamance Foods expansion

Burlington’s municipal leaders have agreed to seek funds from the state’s commerce department to subsidize the potential upgrade of a food processing plant near...

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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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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...

Sheriff, nine deputies removed as defendants in federal lawsuit

Alamance County sheriff Terry Johnson and nine of the 10 “John Doe” sheriff’s deputies who were allegedly at the scene of a fatal shooting...

Mebane restaurant ownership, profits part of dispute between owners

A popular restaurant in downtown Mebane is at the center of a protracted legal battle over the division of its ownership and profits. Juan Rossi...

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