City offers LabCorp $2.2M to land $71M aviation center at Burlington-Alamance Airport
Burlington’s city council has approved $2.2 million in subsidies in order to smooth the proverbial runway for a new aviation center that the Laboratory...
Commissioners sign off on new ‘stump dump’ in Snow Camp
Another landfill approved for Snow Camp area
Alamance County’s governing board has given an area resident the all-clear to establish a new landfill for tree...
Former ‘body sculpting’ studio in Graham sued for defaulting on lease
The owner of a body sculpting business that had been located at 904 Washington Street in Graham is being sued for allegedly defaulting on...
City council, commissioners go behind closed doors for economic development projects
While Burlington’s city council took action in an open meeting, and after a public hearing, on the LabCorp $71 million project at the Burlington-Alamance...
Burlington police chief to retire
Burlington police chief Brian Long has announced his intention to retire from atop the department where he's worked his entire 28-year law enforcement career...
Mebane Sheetz ready to re-open (next week)
The Sheetz in Mebane – closed since September for demolition of the previous store, built in 2005, and building an updated replacement – is...
What’s going in off East Gilbreath Street?
QUESTION: What’s being built along Gilbreath Street where earth movers have begun clearing land?
ANSWER: There are actually two residential projects in close proximity along...
Why has grading work taken so long on Hanford Road?
QUESTION: What is planned for the land along Hanford Road that has been being cleared and graded for about a year near Nall Memorial...
What’s happening beside Morinaga off I-85/40?
QUESTION: What’s being built beside Morinaga along the interstate on the edge of Mebane?
ANSWER: From the interstate, the Bobbitt Construction sign and the work...
Local high school senior publishes book on relationship between social media and mental health
By Charity L. Cohen
Special to The Alamance News
Like many at the start of the pandemic, Keegan Lee, high school senior at The Burlington School,...
