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According to new student orientation, 1600 new students now walk the bricks of Elon. Among those students is new freshman, Kyle Bacciocco. Though he received his acorn under the oaks like all the other new student, Bacciocco's experience is different from most freshmen because his sister is a senior here at Elon.
It's hot. It's summer. It's 48 hours till move-in. And the last thing you want to be thinking about is school starting...but in a little less than a week, you'll be here. "Studying and learning" is what your parents think you'll be up to, but to you that translates to "sleeping and partying." The last thing you want to think about are rules, but here's a quick guide on how to start your first week off right. After all, the rumors are true...you can get expelled before your first week begins.
Whitley Auditorium played host to the 132 students of Elon Law's 10th entering class, the Class of December 2017.
Parents huddle around tables as their children excitedly point out their creations: macaroni cars, paper bowls or preliminary business plans for imaginary ice cream stands. These were the sights that greeted those who attended the closing ceremony of the"It Takes a Village Project" summer camp on July 24, which celebrated the work of the 75 students who were a part of it.
Even though it is summer, some are still taking the opportunity to learn on campus. Elon graduate students pursuing their master's in gifted education led the Flex Program, a week long camp for gifted kids in the community.
Elon Phoenix. The official logo of Elon Athletic's
Alamance County will be the home to one of the best-known grocery stores in Europe, bringing an estimated 200 new jobs to the area.
Police found a man and a woman dead inside their home on Walker Rd. in an apparent murder-suicide, Thursday afternoon July 2.
Elon has officially established a town fire department as of Tuesday, June 23.
Gabriela Rosales is able to write more words with her right hand, three months after being hit by a car while crossing North Williamson Ave. in Elon.
Elon University is delaying all plans for changes in the dining venue in the historic neighborhood and Downtown Elon, according to Gerald Whittington, senior vice president for business, finance and technology. Previous plans to move a Starbucks into Acorn Coffee Shop's location, and to move Acorn to Varsity Sports Grill in Downstairs McEwen Dining Hall have been put on hold for at least a year.
Summer is around the corner for Elon students as the end of the 2015 school year approaches, but that means that work is just beginning for the university's construction. This summer construction teams will begin work on as many as 8 major throughout the campus.
Brick by brick, members of the Elon First Baptist Church collected 68 years of memories on a Saturday morning. The original Elon First Baptist Church building on Trollinger Avenue was demolished April 18. The demolition company left a bucket of bricks at the site for anyone who wanted one as a keepsake. The building had not been in use since 1990, when the church moved to its new location on Lynn Street, but thoughts of past Sunday mornings were still there for a few members. “I went by that morning to see the church and there was this old gentleman just collecting all these bricks from the site,” said Tracy Kennedy, Elon First Baptist’s business administrator. “The construction guys were helping him out, and I asked them, ‘How long has he been out there?’ They said all day.” After the move to Lynn Street, Elon First Baptist tried to register the original church as a historical site. Talks with the North Carolina Historic Commission fell through because the costs of renovating the church were too much. “It was just going to be too expensive to try and do a big project like that,” said Lawrence E. Slade, Elon First Baptist Church’s chairman of the deacon board. “So we decided to have it demolished. The church was becoming an eyesore for the city.” There was limited turnout at the demolition. Kennedy said the current church members were either too old to collect bricks from the site or too young to have any attachment to the church. “There were about three or four people collecting things from the site when I went,” she said. “I don’t want to say no one cared about it, but I haven’t heard a complaint from anyone about it being torn down. The ones that wanted to be there got what they wanted.” Slade grew up in the original church. When he collected his bricks, he was thinking about the future instead of the past. “I got about 25 bricks,” he said. “That’s all I needed. And one day I’ll pass them on to my daughter. She was about six years old when we moved into the new church, so she doesn’t remember much about that old one.” Elon First Baptist Church was founded by John McMullen in 1922, building the original church on his land with the help of Slade’s grandfather. It was the first African-American church built in the town of Elon. The church was untreated and unkempt for years. Original plans to tear down the church began about seven years ago, but they stalled until the church’s transition to its new pastor, Rev. Eddie Spencer, in 2011. “Our old pastor wasn’t quite as hands-on as our new pastor is,” Kennedy said. “He doesn’t like to sit around. He wants to see things happen. Our old pastor wasn’t quite that way about things, so nothing happened to the original church for a while.” The demolition process sped up with Spencer in the fold and the increasing danger of the old church. Kennedy said they were afraid of the collapsing structure hurting community members. Elon students occasionally went inside the church to hang out and explore. The condition of the building made it likely that someone would eventually get hurt, according to Kennedy. “When we looked at the church, it was dilapidated and the roof was compromised,” said Sean Tencer, Elon’s town planner. “It was a liability waiting to happen for anyone that went in there. The church had been in this state for a long time.” The church also wasn’t practical for accommodation purposes. No heating, ventilation or air conditioning made it difficult to hold any events inside it. Elon First Baptist occasionally held services outside of it after the move, but that was the only activity, according to Slade. The Town of Elon signed off on the demolition permit, and Elon First Baptist went to D.H. Griffin, based in Greensboro, to set up the site’s deconstruction. “D.H. Griffin did a good job,” Slade said. “They cleaned up the site well and added fresh grass, so it looks like nothing has ever been down there.” The building is gone, with only the cemetery next to it as a sign of what it once was. Elon First Baptist is now entrenched in its current location for the foreseeable future, but the old church had a big role in the community, according to church member Mary McManus. “It was like a little hut,” McManus, an Elon First Baptist member her entire life, said. “But we had a lot of memories there. It made us into a family.”
The Alamance County Fire Marshal issued a citation to Tony's Pub-N-Subs at 415 W. Haggard Ave for "overcrowding or admittance of any person beyond the approved capacity of a building" on Friday May 1st.
Updated 4:15 p.m. Friday May 8, 2015
Downtown Elon has become a place where local businesses have grown and thrived off the local community. That's why when Elon Dining Services announced that Starbucks would be replacing Acorn Coffee Shop, Phil Smith, owner of the Oak House, was concerned.
Gabriela Rosales, the first-year student hit by a car on North Williamson Avenue in mid-March has just been transferred to WakeMed where she will begin her rehabilitation process.
Fifteen minutes away from Elon's campus is a small shopping center off of North Church St. Cum Park Plaza is home to a number of businesses, but it also hosts a number of empty lots where stores and restaurants used to reside.
A wastewater overflow of approximately 27,400 gallons from Burlington’s sanitary collection system went into Bowden Branch, a tributary of Little Alamance Creek. It was the second large-scale Burlington wastewater spill in less than five days. Large amounts of yarn wrapped around a piece of wood in a pipe located at 833 Queen Ann St. caused the blockage and subsequent spillage at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, according to Rachel Kelly, Burlington’s public information officer. The spillage ended at 8:35 a.m. “The sewer pipe was in an area where several industries are located, including one that works with yarn,” Kelly said. The overflowing wastewater flowed into a storm drain connected to Bowden Branch, approximately 15 minutes away from Elon University’s main campus. Kelly said the only known effect of the overflow was the death of several fish in the creek. “That’s the result of the water coming in having a higher temperature than the creek water,” she said. “Burlington is still waiting to get more test results back about it.” According to Michael Kingston, a professor of biology at Elon, bacteria from the waste also has an adverse effect on the fish. “Whenever you release waste into these streams, the bacteria go crazy,” he said. “They’ll consume all the oxygen in the water and there’s nothing left for the fish. The fish die because of that.” Yarn has never been an issue with an overflow, according to Michael Layne, Burlington’s stormwater manager. “We’re definitely going to follow up with the yarn industry here,” Layne said. “But this is probably an isolated incident.” On April 18, about 20,000 gallons of wastewater flowed into Servis Creek, also located in Burlington, because of a grease buildup. In January, 3.5 million gallons of sewage spilled into Haw River in a span of two days after a line broke at a Burlington treatment plant. Kingston said wastewater spillage has been an issue in the past for North Carolina due to hog lagoons, areas where pig waste is stored. “About 20 years ago, we used to have all of these lagoons, and sometimes waste would get into the streams when the dams wouldn’t hold,” he said. “The ammonia from the waste is toxic, and that produces a lot of dead fish.” Kelly said Burlington cleans 20 percent of its sewer lines each year, more than the 10 percent required by the state of North Carolina. “We’re making an education campaign for our residents about not throwing grease down the drain,” Kelly said. “That will make overflows less of a possibility.”
University officials along with police and campus security are investigating an incident of racial intolerance that occurred Wednesday night on North O'Kelly Avenue.