Elon town council approves new policy for naming things
What’s in a name?
Quite a bit – in the judgment of Elon’s town council, which has come up with a whole slate of new rules for naming buildings and...
Elon’s town clerk to retire after 21 years on the job
After the better part of two decades as Elon’s municipal clerk, DiAnne Enoch is preparing to hang up her keys to the town’s municipal building.
Yet, Enoch’s impending retirement, which...
Should Elon street closed because of logging trucks be re-opened into Gibsonville subdivision? Elon...
A residential developer’s preparations for a new project in Gibsonville have apparently set off a minor revolt among homeowners from one nearby subdivision in Elon.
Nearly a dozen of these...
Encore race in Elon: third time’s the charm for Michael Woods
The provincial squabbles of municipal government might seem light years removed from the rough-and-tumble world of labor negotiations.
But the chasm between these two realms has proven eminently bridgeable for...
College fraternity wants town of Elon to allow leniency on noise ordinance
It wasn’t the threat of “double-secret probation” that brought nearly a dozen members of one campus fraternity before Elon’s town council on Tuesday.
Instead, this contingent from Beta Theta Pi...
Elon town council calls for more limits on Airbnbs in town’s proposed development rules
Elon’s town council made full use of the figurative red pen last Tuesday as its members continued to refine a proposed land management ordinance that’s intended to modernize the...
Cyclist suing driver who hit him in 2020 for medical expenses and other damages
Grant Davis Newman, of 944 East Haggard Avenue, Unit 2, in Elon is suing the driver of a vehicle who he claims hit him in October 2020 for medical...
Neighbor’s overture leaves council salivating over potential value of abandoned town well
A neighbor’s designs on the site of an abandoned town well seems to have released a groundswell of new interest among Elon’s municipal leaders in this all-but-forgotten piece of...
Elon’s ordinances get a thumbs up from town’s diversity committee
No news was, indeed, good news in Elon this week as the town’s elected leaders heard back from an advisory board that had been tasked with screening the town’s...
Elon council OKs plan to set up beer garden on municipal property
Elon’s town council has approved a proposal that will enable the town to cultivate a new beer garden within a special downtown district where the outdoor consumption of alcohol...
