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...
Mebane budget holds line on property taxes; water & sewer rates to rise 10...
Mebane city manager Chris Rollins outlined to city council members Monday night his proposed budget for the next fiscal year that begins July 1.
Rollins...
Mebane police chief reverses retirement announcement, will stay on – for at least...
Mebane police chief Terry Caldwell, who had announced his retirement on March 23 effective June 1, has decided, instead, to remain in his post...
Mebane gives cookie maker incentives it sought for expansion
Mebane’s city council gave a Belgian cookie manufacturer the sweet deal it had sought: $600,000 in new incentives in exchange for a $60 million...
