Alamance, North Carolina

• New daycare dropoff policy creates turmoil
  

  Parents and day care owners aren't happy with how a change in Alamance-Burlington School System policy has affected them.

• Feds: Educational workers exempt from Hatch Act
  

  A federal law that prohibits government workers from engaging in some political activities does not apply to Fairness Alamance members Hannah Gill and Laura Roselle because they work at educational institutions, information from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel shows.

• Alamance; Anson; Bertie; Bladen; Brunswick; Cabarrus; Caswell;...
  

  Special Weather Statement issued September 02 at 2:24PM EDT expiring September 03 at 8:15AM EDT by NWS Raleigh ...INCREASED FIRE DANGER FRIDAY ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... THE COMBINATION OF HOT TEMPERATURES...BREEZY WESTERLY WINDS AND MINIMUM HUMIDITY VALUES BETWEEN 20 AND 30 PERCENT WILL INCREASE THE THREAT FOR RAPID OR ERRATIC FIRE GROWTH ...

• Fairness Alamance isn't the only group that uses college space
  

  Alamance Community College has allowed many organizations to use its facilities for meetings, its spokesman said this week after a controversy involving the group Fairness Alamance.

• Exhibit shows war through a soldier's eyes
  

  An exhibit at Alamance Community College shows how a native of the county's Melville community and his family reacted to the U.S. Civil War.

• The Alamance Scene: teen theatre and the AARP
  

  The Alamance Partnership for Children will meet at noon Sept. 8 at the old Glencoe Mill, 2322 River Road, Building 102, Burlington.

• Entries being accepted for poet series
  

  LAURINBURG a ' Entries are now being accepted for the 2010-2011 Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poets Series Created by the North Carolina Poetry Society, the program provides promising student poets at the middle school, high school, college/university and adult level the opportunity to work with a distinguished published poet.

• Invisible no more: Proximity to Triad, Triangle helps define Alamancea s future
  

  Years ago, when Richard Jones first opened his commercial real-estate company, he remembers how Burlington and the other communities in Alamance County "always felt like stepchildren.

• Woman wants to change N.C. high school name to Obama High
  

  A woman who wants to re-name Western Alamance High School and Western Middle School for President Barack Obama returned to an Alamance-Burlington Board of Education meeting last week.

• Tracking the money
  

  The Alamance-Burlington School System's operating budget for 2010-11 is made up of $167,678,600 from the state, local and federal governments.

• Negative campaign mailer belongs in the trash can
  

  I was very upset today when my family received this color printed flier in the mail from Real Jobs NC titled "State Senator Tony Foriest Alamance/ Caswell is wasting our tax dollars on pork projects." The flier continued for three more pages to use terms like "pork sampler," "time to cut the fat," etc.

• Burlington Donates Fire Trucks To Mexican Sister City
  

  The Burlington-Alamance Sister Cities program is helping an entire community in Mexico.

• Ups and downs: Commencing classes; gathering golfers and a reminder that one mistake can be costly
  

  The dog days of August will one day yield to the brisk fall air. And the start of another school campaign is a sign that the latter is on the way.

• The Alamance Scene: grief support and a fun run
  

  The Good as New Thrift Shop of Springdale AME Church at 5554 N.C. 62 S., Burlington is open Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon.

• Alamance: A Prelude to Revolution
  

  The Regulator Movement , where colonial settlers took up arms against the corrupt colonial government, was an uprising along the North Carolina backcountry that lasted from 1764 to 1771.

• Fifth Alamance rabies case reported
  

  Another rabies case in southern Alamance County involved a dog that did not have an up-to-date rabies vaccination.

• The Alamance Scene: veterans and Eagle Scouts
  

  Members of American Legion Post 63 , Auxiliary Unit 63 and Sons of The American Legion Squadron 63 will meet at the Post 63 Home at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept.

• Alamance V.I.P.'s plan anniversary celebration
  

  At first, Nancy Wright admits that she wasn't willing to do what the Lord was asking.

• Plan for new Cummings High field house approved
  

  The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education approved plans to name a field house at Cummings High School for the late Steven Nall.

City Description

Alamance is a village in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 310 at the 2000 census. The current (2008) estimated population is 357. Alamance played a significant role in the development of the textile industry in the South. In 1837 Edwin Michael Holt, son of a local farmer, built the Alamance Cotton Mill at Alamance. Holt's mill produced the well-known 'Alamance Plaids,' the first factory-dyed cotton cloth produced south of the Potomac. The Holt family subsequently built scores of mills across the state, as well as becoming involved in banking, railroads, politics and other ventures. Alamance is located at 36°1′40″N 79°29′20″W / 36.02778°N 79.48889°W / 36.02778; -79.48889 (36.027672, -79.488863). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.9 km²), of which, 0.7 square miles (1.8 km²) of it is land and 1.37% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 310 people, 148 households, and 92 families residing in the village. The population density was 434.7 people per square mile (168.6/km²). There were 161 housing units at

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• North Carolina
• Alamance County

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 1.81299167724 km squared

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