Times-News (Burlington, NC) back issues from August 2007:
Salons to offer free haircuts to children.
Aug 01, 2007
Obituaries.(Obituary)
Aug 01, 2007
City gets a kick out of soccer: National tournament draws thousands.
Aug 01, 2007
Hundreds mourn Prosser: Former players, fellow coaches and fans gather to remember coach.
Aug 01, 2007
Storylines abound as Chase begins at Ace.
Aug 01, 2007
Foreign artists display work inspired by N.C. at arts council.
Aug 02, 2007
Shoppers flood Alamance Crossing.
Aug 02, 2007
Sales tax holiday begins Friday.
Aug 02, 2007
DANGEROUS CROSSINGS.
Aug 03, 2007
National retailer suing local company: Lawsuit is over trademark infringement, unfair competition.
Aug 03, 2007
Shooting leads to civil lawsuit.
Aug 03, 2007
Camp makes high school a little less scary.
Aug 03, 2007
Correction.(Correction notice)
Aug 03, 2007
Five generations ... again: Burlington woman lives to see two sets of five generations.
Aug 03, 2007
Duke sees light at end of long football tunnel.
Aug 03, 2007
Wanted Graham man found after 3 months.
Aug 04, 2007
Driver charged in accident that killed four.
Aug 04, 2007
N.C. State, O'Brien eager to improve: Wolfpack begins practice with tons of motivation.
Aug 04, 2007
Tar Heels coach back in comfort zone.
Aug 04, 2007
Slick Cook wins first Chase race at Ace.
Aug 04, 2007
HOMELESS IN ALAMANCE COUNTY: IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE.
Aug 05, 2007
Tar Heels recruit turns down comparisons: DeGraffenreid ready to join women's basketball squad.
Aug 05, 2007
Public to speak on land development plan.
Aug 05, 2007
Weekend shopping not taxing.
Aug 05, 2007
Elon football recruits show off versatility: Incoming freshmen ready for start of practice.
Aug 05, 2007
Minor League Notes: Speed can be deceiving.
Aug 05, 2007
Center sinks teeth into fight for wild animals.
Aug 05, 2007
Mebane City Council takes on zombies, part II.
Aug 05, 2007
2007 Camera Corner / Times-News Photo Contest: Picture perfect.
Aug 05, 2007
Program checks up on adult care homes.
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Nathan Cohen Aug. 13--For an adult care patient, the wrong medicine at the wrong time could be detrimental to her health -- or deadly. But, because Alamance County is one of four counties to institute a state pilot program to fix problems with medication ...
Mayor to state: Help us with gangs.
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Robert Boyer Aug. 13--Burlington Mayor Stephen Ross has a beef with the state Senate. He's steamed that senators failed to pass anti-gang legislation. "Thumbs down to the state senate," Ross said at the city council meeting on Tuesday. For months, ...
Obituaries.(Obituary)
Aug 13, 2007 ... Aug. 13--Times-News, Burlington, N.C., Obituaries Mrs. Lucy M. Beyer BURLINGTON -- Mrs. Lucy M. Beyer, 91, formerly of Ardmore Drive, Graham, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2007, at the Alamance Health Care Center. She was born in Clark County, Wis. She ...
Greensboro event seeks future stars.
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 13--GREENSBORO -- The PGA Tour stop in Greensboro this week will be absent many of the more recognizable golfers who finished play during the weekend in the PGA Championship in Tulsa, Okla. But Mark Brazil, who's director for the event at ...
Ambassador program gives teens a chance to see the world.
Aug 13, 2007 ... Byline: Jeff Wirick Aug. 13--Graham's LeAnn Futrell fondly remembers her ride down the gondola on a mountain top in Switzerland. Burlington's Sean Patton speaks favorably about his trip to a German school, where he participated in a soccer match. Graham's ...
Elon to welcome flood of freshmen.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Wilder Aug. 14--Alamance County's population is about to grow by several thousand as students show up at Elon University. Elon University will soon welcome a freshman class of about 1,285. Those students will make up about a fourth of the school's 4,950 ...
Police: Shootings may be linked: Teen killed in possible gang incident.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Roselee Papandrea Aug. 14--Authorities worked all day Monday to sort out the details of three weekend shootings -- two in Graham including the homicide of a high school student, and one in Burlington -- that they believe are all connected and possibly gang-related. ...
Lindsey rejects plea deal: Prosecution offered second-degree murder.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Keren Rivas Aug. 14--GRAHAM -- A teenager whose fate a jury couldn't decide last week refused to take a plea agreement Monday. Assistant District Attorney Katie Overby said the prosecution offered 18-year-old David Terrell Lindsey a plea of guilty to ...
City poised to OK dog park site.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Robert Boyer Aug. 14--Come September, pups might roam where children once splashed and teens danced away summer nights. Since January, the Alamance Kennel Club and Burlington recreation officials have looked for a suitable site for a dog park. The park will ...
Eight arrested in two drug operations: Authorities: Those charged are ?lower level' dealers.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Keren Rivas Aug. 14--Authorities seized 7.1 grams (.25 ounces) of crack cocaine and arrested eight people in two separate drug operations last week. On Wednesday, the Ala mance County Sheriff 's Department searched a mobile home at 2417 U.S. 70, ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Aug 14, 2007 ... Aug. 14--Sean Patton of Burlington was incorrectly identified in a photo caption on Page D2 of Monday's Teens & 20s section. The Times-News regrets the error. To report other corrections or clarifications, use the contact information at right. To see more of the Times-News, or ...
Organizers' goal: Cool, good time for spectators.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 14--GREENSBORO -- Months ago organizers for the PGA Tour stop in Greensboro began testing new ideas for spectatorfriendly promotions that would be in place this week. Tournament director Mark Brazil said the feasibility of all ideas would be ...
Mebane one step closer to retirement community.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Isaac Groves Aug. 14--MEBANE -- There is a 55-acre tract of land off N.C. 119 that's inside the city, but isn't actually in the city limits. That could be about to change. The city's planning and zoning board voted 10-1 Monday night to recommend the city ...
Ex-Tar Heel takes love connection to Danville.
Aug 14, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 14--Danville Braves catcher Benji Johnson will be playing relatively close to home when his team visits Burlington Athletic Stadium for an Appalachian League doubleheader that begins late this afternoon. Forgive him if his mind is on matters ...
Another arrest made in murder: City teen charged with aiding and abetting, accessory after the fact.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Keren Rivas Aug. 15--Graham police arrested a second man Tuesday after two weekend shootings that left one person dead and another hurt. Graham Police Capt. Jeff Prichard said Tuesday night police arrested Jimmy Lee Downey Jr. He is charged with aiding and ...
Family picks up the pieces after house fire.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Keren Rivas Aug. 15--Sandra W. Heckman couldn't imagine any good coming out of a fire that destroyed her Graham home of 14 years on Aug. 6. That all changed minutes after the fire broke, when neighbors and members of the community started showing their ...
Obituaries.(Obituary)
Aug 15, 2007 ... Aug. 15--Times-News, Burlington, N.C., Obituaries Kenneth "Ronnie" Copeland SNOW CAMP -- Kenneth "Ronnie" Copeland, 60, of 955 Quakenbush Road, died Monday, August 13, 2007, due to injuries received in a motorcycle accident. He was the husband of Sandy ...
Tee time: Triad readies for PGA Tour stop.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 15--GREENSBORO -- Professional golf is back for another week in the Triad, if barely recognizable by name or by date. But organizers for the PGA Tour's stop in Greensboro say they're determined to make this men's golf tradition work regardless ...
Big names withdraw in Greensboro: Love III, Smith, others pull out of PGA event.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 15--GREENSBORO -- Golfers and legends are out of the mix for golf this week as the PGA Tour makes its annual stop at Forest Oaks Country Club. Defending champion Davis Love III withdrew Tuesday because doctors recommended removing kidney ...
Duke searches for middle linebacker.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 15--DURHAM -- Two Duke football players converted from other positions are the apparent front runners to fill the position left vacant at middle linebacker with the preseason arrest of Michael Tauiliili. Duke coach Ted Roof said Vincent Rey, ...
Caldera helps Royals split with Danville.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 15--It was a package deal for Burlington Royals pitcher Alex Caldera. Caldera, a right-hander, produced the team's first complete game and the Appalachian League's only individual shutout this year in a 5-0 victory against the Danville Braves ...
Young driver lands popular first Ace win Scott climbs in Modifieds class.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Adam Smith Aug. 15--ALTAMAHAW -- Scores of fans rose in the grandstands and triumphantly thrust their arms skyward as Thomas Scott's car reached the finish line last week at Ace Speedway. And it made sense that such a warm and popular reception embraced the ...
BRIEF: Wake Forest builds up backup production.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 15--WINSTON-SALEM -- Confidence in backups is one of the carryover lessons from Wake Forest's championship season in Atlantic Coast Conference football. The Demon Deacons learned that there's always someone who has their backs. So ...
Newspaper's got Seoul.
Aug 15, 2007 ... Byline: Roselee Papandrea Aug. 15--Small communities are brimming with news, even in South Korea. However, it's only in recent times that journalists had the freedom to report what's happening in the smaller areas of the country. It's the type of news found mostly in ...
A legend lives on: Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre ends season with ?The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Musical'.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Charity Apple Aug. 16--SNOW CAMP -- As director Ed Whitehead read the script for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: The Musical," he envisioned it on the Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre's stage. "As I was reading it, I was staging it. I was thinking how it would fit ...
Hair and music: Popular '80s rock acts relive memories on current tour.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Brian Rose Aug. 16--GREENSBORO -- Mark Slaughter remembers how popular "hair bands" were back in the late 1980s. His band, simply called Slaughter, carried the genre's momentum into a new decade with its debut release, "Stick It To Ya," in 1990. That album ...
Mebane company faces discrimination lawsuit: Man says he was fired for being Israeli.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Keren Rivas Aug. 16--An Israeli resident is suing a Mebane business, saying he was fired from his job because of his nationality. In a complaint filed earlier this year in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Musa Ahmad Sayyad ...
Seven schools must offer transfer option.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Mike Wilder Aug. 16--The Alamance-Burlington School System expects seven elementary schools will have to allow families to send children to another school after federal test score results from 2006-07 are released Friday. Jean Maness, the school system's ...
4,500 new students begin at Alamance Community College.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Nathan Cohen Aug. 16--Perplexed first-year students at Alamance Community College looked lost Wednesday trying to find their first classes on the first day of fall semester. Students' eyes moving quickly between their printed schedules and room numbers ...
The family that learns together.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Nathan Cohen Aug. 16--The fact that David, Connie and Daniel sat next to each other in General Microbiology on Wednesday morning may not seem out of the ordinary. That is, until you find out that David and Connie Whitfield are Daniel Whitfield's parents. All ...
Obituaries.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Aug. 16--Times-News, Burlington, N.C., Obituaries Elsie Michael Wall LIBERTY -- Elsie Michael Wall, 79, of 7948-C Oakgrove Church Road, went home to be with her Lord on Wednesday, August 15, 2007, at her home surrounded by her loving family. A native of ...
Family memories inspire artwork.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Charity Apple Aug. 16--Artist Jim Teague was rummaging through some old photos when he discovered a piece of his family's history. The 1972 color photo was of Double Top Apple Orchard in Macon County. "My family was in the canning business. They ...
Funny lady provides funny times: Humorist plans DVD release party.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Charity Apple Aug. 16--GRAHAM -- Jeanne Robertson doesn't sing or paint but still considers what she does to be a part of the arts. Robertson is a humorist. She tells real-life stories, not jokes. And whether or not you're from Alamance County, these stories ...
Couple vow for better or for bogey.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: James Moffat Aug. 16--GREENSBORO -- The bride was escorted to the altar in a golf cart. She accented her flowing white dress with a pair of FootJoys. For the groom, a Byron Nelson golf shirt replaced a tuxedo. Chuck Pinnix and Kelly Hasick didn't ...
Danville heads out of town riding high after dealing Royals loss.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 16--Members of the Burlington Royals probably should have peeked out from the clubhouse just to make sure the bus carrying the Danville Braves was pulling out of the parking lot Wednesday night. Good-bye and good riddance. Danville ...
Event director wants to bring rowdy atmosphere to No. 17: Notes.
Aug 16, 2007 ... Byline: Bob Sutton Aug. 16--GREENSBORO -- So much for the quietness of a golf tournament. When PGA Tour players make their way around Forest Oaks Country Club this week, tournament director Mark Brazil is endorsing a rowdy atmosphere. In particular, he ...