County settles with former atty.; he’ll get $165K

Fired when he was 64, county atty. charged age discrimination; EEOC agreed; county’s insurance will pay; county admits no wrongdoing Alamance County has quietly settled...

Veterans’ group seeks free use of park for balloon festival

A local advocacy group for veterans seemed to aim for the stratosphere this week when it appeared before the county’s board of commissioners to...

County manager debuts budget for proposed capital improvements

Alamance County’s manager has unfurled a proposed capital improvement plan for the next fiscal year that calls for just over $22.5 million in outlays...

Sluggish year-end sales tax receipts worried one commissioner, but up overall – so far...

One factor that consistently enables local governments to replenish their savings is the general tendency for tax revenues to come in over and above...

Commissioners endorse proposals for opioid settlement that include revival of specialized drug court

Alamance County’s commissioners have signed off on some proposed uses for the roughly $2.9 million that the county has, so far, received from a...

Commissioners explore alternatives to proposed courthouse expansion

Alamance County’s commissioners have decided to go back to the drawing board with a much-deliberated proposal to expand the county’s largest criminal courts building...

School system’s new interim chief ushers in détente with commissioners

The temporary new head of the Alamance-Burlington school system didn’t get any back talk this week when he made his formal debut before Alamance...

Even scaled-down, convention center seems a nonstarter with commissioners

Alamance County is apparently a poor choice of setting for a convention center on the order of the crowd-luring behemoths in Durham and Greensboro....

Commissioners OK comp time to be converted to cash for sheriff, EMS staff

For sheriff’s deputies and other county emergency workers, the first Monday in March was a little like Christmas, New Year’s, and Thanksgiving all rolled...

Sheriff calls on commissioners to raise taxes if needed to combat turnover in his...

Alamance County’s sheriff Terry Johnson didn’t exactly gussy things up when he appeared before the county’s board of commissioners on Monday to address his...

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