Is land for Buc-ee’s in Mebane being graded despite planning board recommendation for the...
QUESTION: Mebane’s planning board has recommended denial of a special use permit and rezoning for the Buc-ee’s travel plaza at 1425 Trollingwood Hawfields Road,...
Graham’s mayor takes issue with formula for new municipal occupancy tax on hotels
The mayor of Alamance County’s county seat is apparently having some heartbreak over a proposed new hotel tax that promises to raise some additional...
Audit shows continued growth in county government’s savings
Alamance County’s annual audit is out, and it seems that the county’s leaders managed to keep things on a fairly strong financial footing during...
Commissioners bump school board chairman from county planning board
The chairman of the Alamance-Burlington school board has been bounced from an appointed position that she had held for the better part of two...
N.C. has specific guidelines for disciplining judges
North Carolina’s Constitution and changes to state laws passed by the General Assembly in 2013 set forth specific processes for disciplining and possibly removing...
EEOC takes up former county attorney’s age discrimination case; commissioners begin depositions
Their unamicable separation with their former legal counsel some two years ago seems to have come back to haunt the members of Alamance County’s...
Three arrested, make first court appearances for Carolina Mill fire
Three men were arrested Wednesday in connection with the November 25 fire that destroyed the vacant former Carolina Mill north of Burlington. The mill,...
Rogers ready for school board service, sworn in Mon.
“To me, our school system is not about politics; it is about doing what is best for our students and our staff. We are...
One man, three teens arrested for setting fires at Culp Mill, Green Level house
Juveniles now in juvenile detention facilities after first court appearances Tues.; motive unknown; sheriff's office still seeking info on third fire, at Carolina Mills
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Amen to That: Dejuana Bigelow sworn in as first black woman Burlington city council...
Judge Larry Brown struck a resolutely spiritual tenor on Tuesday when he ascended the stage of Burlington’s Paramount Theater to swear in the city’s...
