Planning board on rezoning proposal for townhomes: too dense, insufficient parking
Mebane planning board members threw cold water on a developer’s proposal to rezone about 25½ acres along Ben Wilson Road (at the intersection with...
If you’ve ever wanted to serve on Mebane planning board, now’s the time to...
The city of Mebane faces a shortage of applications for the city’s planning board in one category, the exact number (among all three incumbents...
Eastern High School Top 10 students all headed to college with thousands of dollars...
Eastern High School’s Class of 2021 graduated two weeks ago with their high school diplomas and thousands of dollars in scholarship awards to attend...
Property owner angered by city’s moves toward condemnation
The owner of a Clay Street property that Mebane city officials recommended should be condemned because the owner has failed to make any improvements...
Mebane budget approved – minus sidewalk neighbors didn’t want
Mebane city council’s consideration of the next fiscal year budget drew little comment or controversy, except from the spokeswoman of one section of South...
Former long-time Mebane mayor Glendel Stephenson dies at 88
Long-time Mebane mayor Glendel Stephenson has died. He was 88.
The veteran mayor served 35 years at the helm of his city’s council (first between...
School board approves $1.8M in contracts for SROs
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 7-0 Wednesday to approve $1.8 million in annual contracts for school resource officers – absent any of the controversy...
County, cities buck ‘defund police’ rhetoric; most have increases
It’s been just over a year since the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis cop ignited a nationwide movement to “defund the police.”...
City manager optimistic about greenway trail that former mayor says is “unneeded, unwise, expensive”...
Mebane’s city manager is still optimistic that everything will work out for the city to obtain an easement on the one missing parcel necessary...
First members of racial equity advisory committee appointed by Mebane city council
Mebane's city council has appointed the first six out of seven potential members of a racial equity advisory committee. The city had decided...
