Chantal level flooding was a 1,000-year event
More than two weeks have passed since Tropical Storm Chantal delivered an unexpectedly powerful jolt to Alamance and other surrounding counties.
For some area residents,...
Hospitals spar over whose Mebane project is better
Comprehensive coverage of the comments the two contenders to build a hospital in Mebane recently made to state regulators – highlighting the advantages of...
Saxapahaw preschool learns to adapt to post-storm reality
The recovery from Chantal has been anything but child’s play for Saxapahaw Village Kids, a preschool for ages 2 to 5 that has traditionally...
Duke/Novant suggests that a new hospital brand would improve patient care, potentially drive down...
Adding competition in Alamance County would be good for residents
The two hospital systems that are competing to build a hospital in Mebane – Cone...
Cone says not clear whether new hospital is to be Duke, or Novant
Cone says Duke/Novant application has "fundamental inconsistencies"
In written comments it has filed with the state about a competitor’s proposal to build a hospital in...
Harrison appointed chairman as control of local election boards shifts to GOP
A partisan tug-of-war at the state level has had some spillover effects on the local boards of elections in Alamance and other counties in...
School board initiates dispute process to challenge county budget’s ABSS allotment as inadequate
Alamance-Burlington school board members have voted, 7-0, to begin the statutory dispute process of challenging the county commissioners’ adoption of the budget that school...
AN ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: EXTENSIVE COUNTY BUDGET COVERAGE
The county commissioners held a three-hour public hearing Monday night that attracted hundreds of residents to the Alamance County Historic Court House. Almost four...
Priola outlines trends, proposes his own spending proposal for keeping current tax rate
Members of the general public weren’t the only ones who weighed in on the county manager’s proposed budget when Alamance County’s board of commissioners...
Rescue Squad, other nonprofits also defended during public hearing
Another substantial bloc of Monday’s audience spoke up in defense of the nonprofit organizations that been nicked by the county manager’s pen.
Meredith Peffley, the...
