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The Alamance-Burlington School System, Burlington Pediatrics, and Cone Health have partnered to provide students at Hillcrest Elementary School with telehealth services during the school day.

The Alamance-Burlington School System has sworn in Aaron Fleming as its new superintendent. Fleming has served as the superintendent of Harnett County Schools for the past seven years, and was previously an education policy advisor to state House Speaker Tim Moore.

Leaders of the Alamance-Burlington School System have approved a budget proposal that realigns dozens of positions amid the district's funding crisis. The proposal also cuts nearly 70 vacant positions.

Bill Harrison, the newly named interim superintendent of the Alamance-Burlington School System, says the district will have to cut programs or positions amid its budget crisis.

State and federal leaders joined Burlington officials at a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening Friday.

The six newspapers changing owners from Gannett to Paxton are the Burlington Times-News, the Asheboro Courier-Tribune, the Kinston Free Press, the New Bern Sun Journal, and The Daily News of Jacksonville.

The test is already approved to detect orthopoxviruses, which include monkeypox. Wake County confirmed its first case of monkeypox — the third in North Carolina — on Wednesday.

After a hiatus of about 20 months due to COVID-19, Minor League Baseball has returned in North Carolina. The Durham Bulls, armed with the game's top prospect, open at home on May 11. And the newly-named Burlington Royals begin play in June.

Major League Baseball started the process of eliminating minor league affiliates Tuesday, with the Appalachian League converted to a college summer…

Greg Drumwright has spent most of his life in North Carolina’s Triad region. He was raised in Burlington, attended college at North Carolina A&T and then…