Photos from weekend Balloon Fest: views from land and air
Rainy weather grounded balloons for most of Saturday, but about 21 took to the skies on Friday afternoon, and about 10 or so on Sunday afternoon, during weekend's Balloon...
Cummings over Williams in crosstown opener
Big kickoff return lifts Cummings past Williams in opener; Cavaliers nip Bulldogs with aid of Paylor’s key plays
By Bob Sutton
Special to the Alamance News
Jonathan Paylor made one big play...
FOOTBALL PREVIEW: Daunting tasks await county teams in Friday night openers
By Bob Sutton
Special to The Alamance News
There’s no easing into the season for Alamance County's high school football teams.
There are four games in the county Friday night, and these...
Work begins on new(est) 7-Eleven – just down the street from another one already...
It hasn't been long since a few months ago when the former drug store building at 2127 Chapel Hill Road in Burlington was demolished.
Now its replacement, a new 7-Eleven...
A day – and date – to remember: baby born 2/22/22 at 2:22 a.m.
It probably won't be difficult for Judah Grace Spear or her parents to remember her birth date.
Burlington parents Hank and Aberli Spear welcomed their firstborn at 2:22 a.m. Tuesday...
County mulls millions in raises for high turnover departments
Persistent problems with turnover have prompted Alamance County’s administrators to propose pay raises for employees in three areas of county government that they say have been bled dry by...
Bookmobile set to launch Friday
A modern, up-to-date bookmobile – one that library officials prefer to call a mobile library – will launch on Friday.
A kick-off celebration will be held at the Fairchild Community...
Attorney General names former police chief head of state’s education and training standards commission
Former Burlington police chief J. Jeffrey "Jeff" Smythe, who retired from that position in May, has been named as the director of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Standards Division. ...
Court of Appeals upholds Durham drug dealer’s convictions in Alamance County
The state’s second-highest court has upheld the convictions of a drug dealer who claimed he never should’ve been arrested – though he didn’t dispute that he had nearly 5...
Assault charge dismissed against businessman who was arrested while dining in downtown Graham during...
He says all he did was push protester's megaphone out of his face; he agreed to 8 hours of community service to get charge dropped
The Alamance County district attorney’s...
