Commissioners appoint Duke-affiliated nursing instructor to health board
A nursing instructor connected to Duke University has been called in for a consult, of sorts, as the newest member of Alamance County’s health...
Commissioner recoils from change in health dept.’s flu vax mandate
A recent change to the local health department’s employee protocol for flu vaccinations seems to have stirred a rather visceral response from the county...
Health dept. debuts fees for Covid vaccinations
Anyone who visits the local health department next month for a Covid vaccine may get stuck with something more than a needle – namely...
Omicron pushes county’s test positivity rate to 32.6%
As the coronavirus pandemic approaches its second anniversary, the specter of COVID-19 has lost much of its death-like grip over the popular imagination.
After nearly...
Three ABSS schools have cluster of COVID-19 cases
Three ABSS school have identified by school officials as having a cluster of COVID-19 cases. A cluster is defined by health officials as when...
Health Dept.: Covid cases increasing
Alamance County’s leaders received a rather grim prognosis this week when the local health department presented its latest update on the state of the...
Junk collectors backslide; judge issues new order to clean up property and keep...
An illegal junkyard outside of Burlington municipal limits appears to have slowly reconstituted itself in the months since county officials leaned on the property...
County working to clean up dump on Barbee Street in Glen Raven
County workers, sheriff's deputies, and four inmates were on hand Wednesday afternoon (April 7) to clean up around 1940 Barbee Street. See immediately below.
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UPDATE: Agreement reached on cleanup of junkyard at Glen Raven home
Alamance County’s legal department has hammered out a deal to clean up an illegal junkyard that has materialized north of Burlington’s municipal limits.
Alamance County’s...
What would you do if you lived beside house with junk all over the...
Health Dept., Social Services, Sheriff all exploring ways to address illegal junkyard
One man’s trash has become a real bother for county officials as...
