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A proposed ordinance for “backyard chickens” in Burlington has touched off some free-range speculation among the city’s leaders about the potential proliferation of poultry in the community. This hypothetical boom...

Alamance County’s new health director had more than just warm greetings to extend when he made his debut appearance before the county’s board of commissioners this week. Tony Lo Giudice,...

Setting up the Alamance Arts Council’s annual Christmas exhibition hasn’t left the council’s director, Cary Worthy, much time to reflect on his final holiday season at the helm. The planning,...

After almost three decades repairing and collecting antique clocks, Burlington businessman Bud Coleman is ready to sell off his expansive stock. For his first 30 years in the roofing business...

by Kristy Bailey, Alamance News Staff Writer Most people would’ve stayed with the relative security of a state job amid a shaky economy in the post-9/11 world, and an already...

by Kristy Bailey, Alamance News Staff Writer As a professional firefighter with 20 years’ experience, Ryan Bowden has a mindset of serving others that he believes will serve him well...

by Kristy Bailey, Alamance News Staff Writer Donna Davis Westbrooks is proof of the adage, at least in education circles, that great teachers aren’t only born, they’re made. One of three...

  by Kristy Bailey, Alamance News Staff Writer For the first time in 75 years, Graham will be without a Crissman family doctor. Dr. Mark Crissman – whose father, Dr. Clinton Crissman,...

Even as the film industry has been brought to a standstill over the past several months, Graham filmmaker Cornelius Muller seems to be more at work than ever. With one...

Slow, cumbersome, and operable only in fair weather, hot air balloons aren’t the sort of conveyance one would naturally choose to go from Point A to Point B. But...