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5 days ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
Although Windy Lampson is now Alamance-Burlington School System’s 2025 Teacher of the Year, she did not begin an education career after finishing college. Lampson, now visual arts teacher at Southeast Alamance High School, obtained a master's degree from East Carolina University’s School of Art & Design and began working as a professional painter upon graduation. Her first foray into the field of education was serving as an art teacher at an elementary school, and it wasn't a fit.
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1 week ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
Elon University's first new communications major in a decade comes in response to how differently the generation of students now approaching college age has experienced all kinds of media compared to previous generations, according to the new major's program director.
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1 week ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
Cassie Dodson, an Exceptional Child Teacher at A.O. Elementary, sounded the alarm bells regarding increased teacher burnout and teacher attrition in the Alamance-Burlington School System during the public comments portion of the most recent meeting of the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education. “Everyone who is not in the first with us every day is making decisions for us, and we’re the ones burning,” said Dodson, a veteran teacher with 14 years of experience. “We cannot keep teaching this chaos.
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2 weeks ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
The Alamance County Board of Commissioners unanimously has approved placing parental guidance stickers on books in the county’s public libraries. The Alamance County Library Committee voted in February to recommend placing stickers on books containing violence, underage drinking and drug use, or sexually explicit content.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
Attorney Jaelyn Miller believed she had a strong case against Alamance County and the city of Graham over measures that law enforcement officers took to block a peaceful protest in November 2019. But on Feb. 21, Miller’s clients agreed to a $120,000 settlement with the city of Graham after a mediation session that lasted more than seven hours.
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1 month ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
On May 5, the Mebane City Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed continuation and expansion of the Downtown Mebane Social District. Last June, the city council established the social district — an area where people are allowed to openly carry alcoholic beverages purchases in downtown businesses during certain times — for a 12-month trial period.
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1 month ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
Elon University will launch a major in the discipline of neuroscience this fall. The step allows the university to offer bachelor's degrees in neuroscience, is the latest in the development of a program that began nearly 20 years ago, said Matt Wittstein, coordinator of the program. “We’ve had a minor in neuroscience since the late 2000s — it was one of the first minors in neuroscience in the state,” Wittstein said. “At Elon, our minors are pretty much all interdisciplinary programs, so ...
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1 month ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
A program designed to tackle absenteeism and create better health care outcomes for students in the Alamance-Burlington School System is being pioneered at Hillcrest Elementary School in Burlington. The school district held a ribbon-cutting ceremony March 19 to launch the program and highlight its potential benefits for ABSS students and families.
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1 month ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
The Alamance-Burlington Board of Education unanimously approved a budget request asking the county to provide $5.72 million more than the current budget. Chief Finance Officer Tony Messer told school board members the school system’s total request from Alamance County for FY 2025-2026 will be $59,047,000.
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1 month ago | 
thetimesnews.com | Keith Barber
Nine months before Christmas, the local nonprofit Christmas Cheer of Alamance already has its sights set on the holiday season. Marketing Director Tiffany Ashley-Gaither, Marketing Director said fire departments across the county have set up collection boxes for area residents to donate toys for children in need. “It’s amazing that all year long, all fire departments in Alamance County keep a toy drop box, and they're always collecting,” Ashley-Gaither said.
