Commissioners agree to fund special bonuses for EMS because of vacancies
Alamance County’s commissioners have rushed to the rescue of the county’s emergency medical services with a package of financial bonuses that the county manager...
Commissioners approve bonuses to stem turnover in social services
Alamance County’s board of commissioners has agreed to let the head of the county’s social services department distribute bonuses to both current and future...
County’s fifth charter school could open by 2023
A Graham resident who previously founded six charter schools in Alamance, Orange, Chatham, and Durham counties has filed an application with the state Office...
City mgr.: ‘Stagecoach Rock’ more legend than history
Some Mebane residents have been abuzz over the possibility that the so-called “Stagecoach Rock” might be pulverized in order to make way for an...
Western Alamance swimmer to compete for Drexel University in college
By Jacob Kisamore
Special to The Alamance News
Western Alamance High School graduate Elizabeth McDevitt has spent the last 13 years of her life swimming competitively....
Cheek takes new post
Former Mebane city manager David Cheek, who retired from his municipal post in February, has gone back to work. Cheek has accepted a new...
Founder of new charter school has decades of STEM experience, school choice advocacy
Now semi-retired and in his early 80s, Peter Morcombe, chairman of the board for a new charter school that would be located in Alamance...
Commissioners vote to send delegation to visit veterans “village” in Kansas City
Famed for tomato-based barbeque and its powerhouse pro-football team, Kansas City, Missouri isn’t as nearly well known for its contributions to the wellbeing of...
Library books are still due back, but no more fines
Things are no longer just “fine” at Alamance County’s libraries – at least not when it comes to the financial penalties that patrons had...
The Public Asks: Is there a bat infestation at Hawfields Middle/Garrett Elementary?
QUESTION: Is there a bat infestation at the Garrett Elementary/Hawfields Middle School complex in Mebane, and what’s being done to fix it?
ANSWER: Yes, there...
