County allows schools to tap reserves to cover ballooning construction costs
Alamance County’s commissioners have agreed to let the local school system draw just over $8 million from its own capital reserves to cover cost increases in maintenance projects that...
Six candidates vie to fill three open seats on school board
Five of six candidates for the Alamance-Burlington board of education responded to the newspaper’s biennial issues questionnaire this week, revealing a number of points of general agreement, as well...
Republicans, Democrats make endorsements in non-partisan races
The leadership of Alamance County’s Republican Party has formally endorsed a slate of candidates in the ostensibly nonpartisan races for the Alamance-Burlington school board and the board of supervisors...
BREAKING MON. NIGHT – ABSS school board votes to scrap ‘specialty schools’ plan, instructs...
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 4-3 Monday night for superintendent Dr. Dain Butler's proposal to keep seven attendance zones for the high schools across the county.
Butler's plan will allow...
ABSS to close Friday as hurricane rains and wind approach
As Hurricane Ian continues to move up the East Coast, school officials are hunkering down, preemptively, cancelling all classes for students and staff on Friday, September 30, 2022.
Citing the...
ABSS superintendent announces ‘zero tolerance’ policy for violent crimes on school grounds
Alamance-Burlington superintendent Dr. Dain Butler has announced that ABSS students who commit certain types of violent crime at school will automatically face long-term suspension and possibly expulsion.
Butler announced the...
ABSS names 2022 Principal and Assistant Principal of the Year
The Alamance-Burlington school system has named the 2022 principal of the year and assistant principal of the year.
Hawfields Middle School Principal Greg Hook was named the ABSS Principal of...
Eastern High School gets random drug search Wednesday morning
Alamance-Burlington school system officials, in cooperation with the Alamance County sheriff’s K-9 division, conducted a random drug search at Eastern High School Wednesday morning.
The K-9 didn’t alert on any...
Eastern student one of two teens found murdered in western Orange County
Two teenagers, including an Eastern Alamance High School student who had been reported missing this weekend, were found fatally shot Sunday afternoon in the woods in western Orange County...
Supt.: high school redistricting plan should be reconsidered; questions ‘specialty schools’
In this three-part story in this week's (Sept. 15) edition, ABSS superintendent Dr. Dain Butler and other ABSS officials outline reassessments on:
The existing redistricting plan, decided in 2017,...
