Elon fire chief retiring after 45-year career
With his retirement at the end of this month, Elon fire chief Alva Sizemore, 61, has been pondering the countless changes he’s seen in...
Council agrees to subject itself to revised employee travel policy
Burlington’s elected leaders have chosen not to be exempt from a proposed overhaul of the city’s employee travel policy, which is intended to curb...
McCook, Mock win Women’s Resource Center Leadership awards
Two outstanding leaders from Alamance Community College (ACC) were award recipients at the sixth annual Women’s Resource Center “Leading the Way” banquet on November...
Oh say can you see . . . ACC student sings for commissioners
The dawn’s early light had long since yielded to the glare of the midmorning sun when Alamance County’s commissioners convened their latest regularly scheduled...
New police chief is home grown
Brian Long didn’t initially join the queue of job applicants who hoped to succeed the city’s former police chief Jeff Smythe when he retired...
State approves permit for asphalt plant in Caswell Co. that it rejected a year...
State regulators in Raleigh have given the all-clear to an asphalt plant in southern Caswell County that they had previously rejected over concerns that the...
ACC breaks ground on $6.7M student services center
Alamance Community College’s trustees held a groundbreaking ceremony Friday to kick off construction of the $6.7 million student services center that will be built...
Commissioners recognize rescue unit’s honor
Six members of Alamance County’s rescue unit recently went above the call of duty – in a very literal sense – and received first...
Whitsett loses its municipal administrator Ken Jacobs
Kenneth Edwin Jacobs, Sr., the municipal administrator for the town of Whitsett, passed away last week after a protracted struggle with cancer. Jacobs was...
ALCOVETS to hold ground-breaking ceremony for Chestnut Ridge retreat facility in Snow Camp
Alamance County’s veteran outreach organization, ALCOVETS, will be holding a ground-breaking ceremony for its Chestnut Ridge Campus on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at 1765...
