Alamance County

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I'm thinking about Eli Whitney, which is, um, you know, s- the, the, the very, uh, southern part of Alamance County.

They, they got a great volunteer fire department down there that would simply cease to exist.

You know, volunteer fire departments have been stringing along these, these directed appropriations from the General Assembly.

And we have Sal- Yeah.

Or will people just move into these bigger ... 'Cause at first I was thinking this would be a good case for folks that are like, "Man, we're ...

Alamance County, it's getting too crowded.

Too, too many people, too many houses are being built."

[audience applauds] We just had three Wednesday nights where our middle school, high school students got together with Chapel Hill and Alamance k- uh, students together and did Super Series.

It was absolutely awesome.

Hey, y'all check this out.

We had 145 students show up for the very first time, and 53 gave their life to the Lord.

Isn't that awesome? [audience applauds] So, praise God, it was really awesome.

And so wanna greet everybody out at Alamance.

Hey, Alamance, we love you.

Put your hands together for everybody at Alamance campus.

Um, you've got a guy in North Carolina running for county commission.

And Steve Carter in Alamance County, he worked with Governor McCrory to, like, pen many of the voter suppression tactics that North Carolina has done.

And North Carolina's, like, one of those places where it's a hot potato of election policy.

Like, we win the governor's race, so then the state legislature's like, "Well, we don't want a governor who could be fair to be in charge of elections.

Carrier's Chillers in Mecklenburg County took first place in the large business category as the company celebrates 25 years of making AC chillers here in North Carolina.

American Honda Motor Company's Four Trax Foreman in Alamance County won that medium business category.

And Old School Mills' Old School Brand in Stanley County won in the small business category for its hot cocoa mix.

I know we can't think about hot cocoa right now, Amber, as the temperatures climb.

By pressuring school boards to preemptively purge titles before parents even file formal challenges, state officials are forcing administrators into mandatory self-censorship, ensuring hundreds of books vanish from library shelves without ever being recorded in the state's official challenge log.

Next, turning to North Carolina, where local residents and Democratic critics in Alamance County are accusing the All-Republican Board of county commissioners of packing the county's library advisory committee with conservative appointees.

The tension in Alamance County centers on the process for filling seats on the advisory board, which helps shape local library policies and collection guidelines.

Typically, municipal bodies such as city councils recommend local nominees to represent their specific communities on the advisory board.

However, commissioners recently took the unusual step of overriding municipal recommendations, rejecting two nominees put forward by the city of Mabane and one from Burlington, and appointing their own preferred candidates instead.

In response, county commissioners defended their choices, maintaining that their selections reflect the broader interests of their constituents across the county.

However, following pushback, Commissioner Pam Thompson indicated an interest in revisiting the board's appointment policies at a future meeting to review how advisory seats are filled.

This dispute in Alamance County is a textbook example of how the national battle over book access and intellectual freedom is increasingly playing out at a hyper-local level.