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Mebane council likes expanded mixed-use project at corner of Mebane Oaks and Old Hillsborough roads

Mebane’s city council has approved a revised and expanded mixed-use development, Creekside Village, at the northeast corner of Mebane Oaks and Old Hillsborough roads Monday night. What had been a 27.16-acre project with five lots for commercial development (totaling 38,000 square feet) along Mebane Oaks Road and 90 rental townhouses when it was approved in 2023, was now on the city council’s docket for consideration of two additional commercial …Read Article

Apartments in place of private school narrowly approved in Mebane, 2-1

Moving a proposed dog park didn’t earn an apartment developer many points with opposition from existing neighbors, but Greensboro developer Brown Investment Properties was ultimately successful, 2-1, in getting rezoning approval for 140 apartments on a 14.7-acre lot along N.C. 119 near the former Hawfields Presbyterian Home (now Compass Healthcare and Rehab). Mayor pro tem Tim Bradley was absent from the meeting due to recent surgery, and counci…Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

Man charged Friday with rape and sex offense

A sheriff’s department investigation that began with a report of breaking and entering in southern Alamance County has resulted in the arrest of a suspect, who has been charged with felony second degree forcible rape and felony second degree forcible sex offense. Arrested Friday was Brian Scott Copeland, 44, white, male. The sheriff’s office listed his address as Graham; online court records specify 170 Graves Road, Graham. He is being held wit…Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

City of Graham agrees to reconsider waiver of sidewalks at County Ford along Auto Park Drive

The Graham city council has agreed to reconsider a request for a variance (i.e., a waiver) from a requirement to build sidewalks along 728 feet at the front of a long-running car dealership on Auto Park Drive. County Motor Land Company – generally known as County Ford – had asked a superior court judge to review a decision by Graham’s board of adjustment denying its request for a sidewalk construction variance along the front of the dealership p…Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

We print local news, not press releases for government officials

Printed elsewhere on this page is a letter, emailed Thursday morning from county attorney Rik Stevens, expressing his strenuous objection to what he characterized as our “unempathetic” coverage of the 9-1-1 call that Hajar Hassib made on the night of Sunday, July 6, as Tropical Storm Chantal hammered Alamance County with record rainfall. Ms. Hassib made a desperate plea for help as her car was apparently swept off of South Jim Minor Road near it…Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

ABSS board chairman’s partisan actions reveal yet another reason to go to partisan school board elections

We’ve increasingly begun to believe that Alamance County lawmakers should go ahead and introduce legislation to convert the Alamance-Burlington school board into a partisan election for seats every two years. The charade of non-partisanship has become increasingly evident by the partisan caste and tenor of school board meetings and actions. The latest evidence was provided by school board chairman Sandy Ellington-Graves last week who appeared at…Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

Burlington’s pickleball boondoggle goes from bad to worse

We’ve long thought that the city of Burlington’s infatuation with pickleball, and the city council’s commitment to spend millions of tax dollars on additional pickleball courts, was badly misplaced. Now that the 17-court pickleball Taj Mahal near City Park has been completed (at a cost of about $4 million), it seems few people are showing up to play. Where is all the demand we kept hearing about? Oh, it was so urgent, council members were told, …Pickleball · Graham Read Article

City’s new pickleball complex not drawing as many players as expected

An afternoon without rain or intense summer heat was just the thing to lure Chris Sams to his favorite pickleball venue at Fairchild Park on Tuesday for a few rounds of play with his college-age son. [Story continues below photo.] Burlington resident Chris Sams gets into the swing of things at the pickleball courts in Burlington’s Fairchild Park. The preference that many residents have for these courts over a new, state-of-the-art venue at City …Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

Duke/Novant suggests that a new hospital brand would improve patient care, potentially drive down costs

Adding competition in Alamance County would be good for residents The two hospital systems that are competing to build a hospital in Mebane – Cone Health and Duke University Health System with Novant Health – have filed reports with a state division charged with overseeing the process to outline why its application should be approved and the other’s should not (see related story, this edition). A state law allows anyone to file written comments …Graham, North Carolina · Graham Read Article

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Mebane council likes expanded mixed-use project at corner of Mebane Oaks and Old Hillsborough roads

Apartments in place of private school narrowly approved in Mebane, 2-1

Man charged Friday with rape and sex offense

City of Graham agrees to reconsider waiver of sidewalks at County Ford along Auto Park Drive

We print local news, not press releases for government officials

ABSS board chairman’s partisan actions reveal yet another reason to go to partisan school board elections

Burlington’s pickleball boondoggle goes from bad to worse

City’s new pickleball complex not drawing as many players as expected

Duke/Novant suggests that a new hospital brand would improve patient care, potentially drive down costs

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Apartments in place of private school narrowly approved in Mebane, 2-1

Man charged Friday with rape and sex offense

City of Graham agrees to reconsider waiver of sidewalks at County Ford along Auto Park Drive

We print local news, not press releases for government officials

ABSS board chairman’s partisan actions reveal yet another reason to go to partisan school board elections

Burlington’s pickleball boondoggle goes from bad to worse

City’s new pickleball complex not drawing as many players as expected

Duke/Novant suggests that a new hospital brand would improve patient care, potentially drive down costs