Elon town council approves new municipal flag
Elon’s elected leaders have apparently found a new municipal flag that they can feel proud to fly at full staff.
During a regularly-scheduled meeting on...
Elon town council expands social district to include part of church grounds
Elon’s town council has given its blessing to a proposal that will add land owned by an area church into a new downtown district...
County’s planning board wrestles with whether to increase minimum size for residential lots in...
A public debate about subdivision lot sizes might strike some people as a mind-numbingly dull way to spend a Thursday night in July. But...
New county property tax bills now hitting home
Things have begun to heat up in Alamance County’s tax office in the three weeks or so since it issued the property tax bills...
Burlington touts joint venture with advocacy group to monitor industrial discharges into the sewers
The city of Burlington has announced a new, “one-of-a-kind” deal with an environmental advocacy group to jointly monitor certain categories of chemicals that local...
Burlington residents, mayor rail against new Amtrak schedule that reduces train stops in city
Commuters in Burlington and other parts of central North Carolina are apparently not “all aboard” with a new train schedule that the state’s transportation...
School board to keep vacant seat open – at least for now
Alamance-Burlington school board members agreed by consensus Wednesday afternoon to keep a vacant seat open for the foreseeable future.
The vacancy was created by the...
New high school ready for students for 2023-24 school year
Alamance-Burlington school board members got a sneak peek Wednesday morning at the county’s newest high school, Southeast High School, which is nearing completion along...
Burlington planning commission gets new chairman
The chairmanship of Burlington’s planning and zoning commission has amicably passed to a senior member who, a year ago, made an unsuccessful bid to...
Planning board OKs rezoning request for LabCorp’s new hangar at airport
Burlington’s planning and zoning commission has given its clearance to a new corporate hangar at the Burlington Alamance Regional Airport that’s intended to serve...
