Masks now optional on ABSS school buses, as well
The Alamance-Burlington school system has announced that school buses will be mask-optional, meaning students and employees will no longer be required to wear face coverings on school buses but...
Mask mandate, other Covid requirements end for Alamance courts
Alamance County courts will fully reopen, effective immediately, Alamance County's two top judges have decided, based on a directive from N.C. Supreme Court chief justice Paul Newby.
Senior resident superior...
BEHIND THE VOTE – ABSS school board votes 6-1 to lift mask mandate immediately
Alamance-Burlington school board members 6-1 Tuesday afternoon to make masks optional in all ABSS facilties, effective immediately.
“The Alamance County health director has confirmed that he does now, indeed,...
Health director pressed on appropriateness of Covid-19 response, necessity for masks in schools
The specter of COVID-19 continued to cast a shadow over the county’s elected leaders this week as they broke bread with the local school board and the county’s state...
Omicron pushes county’s test positivity rate to 32.6%
As the coronavirus pandemic approaches its second anniversary, the specter of COVID-19 has lost much of its death-like grip over the popular imagination.
After nearly two years of quarantines, contact...
Top Burlington officials hear Cone’s concerns about surge in new Covid cases
A conference call with representatives of the region’s largest hospital chain has apparently left Burlington’s municipal leaders feeling a bit queasy about the latest wave of coronavirus infections.
This multiparty...
Dozens of residents, non-profits line up with requests to commissioners for how to spend...
The members of Alamance County’s governing board were unusually tight-lipped on Wednesday as dozens of nonprofit representatives and others shared their suggestions for the county’s multimillion-dollar cache of federal...
School board votes 5-1 to shorten Covid-19 quarantines by 4 days
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 5-1 this week to shorten the quarantine for students who are exposed to Covid-19 by four days, from 14 days to 10 days.
School board...
School board OKs $1.7M federal grant to expand Covid-19 testing
Alamance-Burlington school board members voted 5-2 during their latest meeting to seek a $1.7 million federally-funded grant that would be used to offer Covid-19 testing for ABSS students and...
Another (fourth) COVID-19 cluster confirmed in an ABSS school
School officials announced Friday afternoon that the county’s health department has identified another school – the school system’s fourth this month – has a cluster of COVID-19 cases.
Garrett Elementary...
