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i-95 was closed in Nash County after a road obstruction for more than an hour.

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) -- Roads were affected all day and into the night by the storms that blew through the state Tuesday, knocking down trees and powerlines. Other areas were plagued by high water,

Interstate 95 was closed in both directions in Nash County on Tuesday afternoon.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation said the road was impassable after heavy rain struck the area.

The affected area was from Mile Marker 132 to 138, near Sandy Cross Road, not far from Rocky Mount.

The roadway was closed for more than an hour because of a road obstruction but reopened just before 6:20 p.m.

I-95 South later closed again near Rocky Mount because of a crash. The left lane remained closed as of 9:30 p.m. near Enfield after Exit 160 (NC 561) and reopened about 11:30 p.m.

Interstate 85 was also affected. In Vance County near Henderson. I-85 North was closed at Mile Marker 212 to 215 on Tuesday night near Exit 212.

It reopened just after 7:45 p.m., the NCDOT said.

OTHER ROADS

NCDOT noted several other roads in the viewing area that have been severely affected.

Mason Road in Durham County was closed near Matthews Road because of severe weather but reopened shortly after 8:30 p.m.

In Wake County, the ramp from I-440 to Exit 1D (Melbourne Road) was closed because of the weather. It reopened about 9:30 p.m.

In Holly Springs, Holly Springs New Hill Road was closed in both directions near Stonender Way and is expected to reopen after 10 p.m.

Severe weather also forced the closure of Honeycutt Road near Durant Road. It should open somewhere around 11:30 p.m.

In Orange County, downed trees were blocking NC 86 near Hawkins Road in Hillsborough. With several trees down, the roadway was finally cleared about 11 p.m.

In Alamance County, NC 119 near Mebane was closed in both directions near Lynch Store Road because of a downed tree blocking the road. It's expected to remain closed until about 10 p.m.

Also in the southern part of the county, E. Greensboro Chapel Hill Road was closed in both directions south of Graham, near Bethel South Fork Road because of downed trees. It reopened just after 8:45 p.m. And Bass Mountain Road is closed near Carl Noah Road after trees came down. The road will be closed overnight.

In the western part of the county, Barber Road was closed from NC 87 N to Elon Ossipee Road because of downed trees. It's expected to reopen Wednesday morning.

And in the southern part, both lanes of NC 87 near Southern High School were closed overnight. Also in that area, Swepsonville Saxapahaw Road was closed overnight near Claremont Trail.

SR-1924 (Rowan Road) in Sampson County is closed in both directions. That is east of Clinton, near NC 24 and New Hope Church Road. It will take longer than expected to reopen, likely not until Wednesday afternoon.

SR-1006 (Siler City Glendon Road) is impassible in Chatham County near Bill Lambert Road. The road flooded and won't be open until 8 a.m., NCDOT said.

Also in Chatham County, US 64 is closed in both directions near Greensboro Avenue because of a downed powerline in the roadway. It may not reopen until Wednesday morning. SR 1736 (Pisgah Church Road) is closed in both directions northeast of Fearrington, near New Hope Church Road because of downed powerlines. It won't reopen until Wednesday morning. Rosser Road, east of Goldston, was closed near Lydia Perry Road because of downed trees and powerlines. It should be back open Wednesday morning.

In Granville County, Goshen Road was closed in both directions near Baxter Huff Road because of high water. It should reopen about midnight. Walnut Grove Road was closed near Noel Tuck, close to Oxford.

In Harnett County, US-401 was closed in both directions south of Lillington, near Byrd's Pond Road. It reopened just before midnight.

In Moore County, Airport Road was closed in both directions west of Carthage near McInnis Road after a power line fell.

Dennys Store Road in Person County was closed both ways near Lester McFarland Road, east of Roxboro because of flooding.

Over in Wayne County, US 13 was closed in both directions west of Mar-Mac, near Loop Road because of a power pole down and blocking US 13 North.

The NCDOT said it might not reopen until near midnight because of a downed tree and power lines near Byrd's Pond Road approximately 1.5 miles south of Bunnlevel.

More than ten thousand customers were without power in the Triangle as a strong line of storms moves across central North Carolina.

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The town of Elon is on track to get 205 new single-family homes following the unanimous approval of a preliminary site plan by the board of aldermen on Monday.

The development is set to be located on an 81-acre tract at the intersection of Manning Avenue and Gibsonville-Ossipee Road.

The site plan approval follows the annexation and rezoning of the property, which were approved by the board last June. The site plan was also given the all-clear by the town’s planning board during its meeting at the end of last month.

In June, the tentative plan for the site was 230 homes, with minimum lot sizes of 6,000 square feet and a minimum of 1,800 square feet for the homes, according to project attorney Ryan Moffitt. The attorney also told the board that the homes would be between $250,000 and $300,000, with some going for more.

This week, however, project engineer Beth Blackman, of the Timmons Group, told the board that it was too early to provide price points for the homes, which she said will have an average of between 2,000 and 3,000 square feet. Lot sizes are now set to start at 7,100 square feet and average 8,583 feet.

During a public hearing held for the preliminary site plan, the board heard from a handful of residents via Zoom, all of whom gave criticisms of the incoming development.

“[New subdivision] is like dropping a major town in the middle of the country.”

– Gibsonville-Ossipee Road resident Don Henley

Don Henley, who lives on Gibsonville-Ossipee Road, told the aldermen that putting the development in the relatively rural neighborhood was “like dropping a major town in the middle of the country.” Henley also described the incoming project as a future “traffic disaster.” As of this week, the development will have two entrances, one onto Gibsonville-Ossipee Road and the other onto Manning Avenue; right turn lanes are planned for both.

For her part, Manning Avenue resident Willie Johnson told the board that she was anticipating the bike path that the developer has planned for the northern part of the development, which will be left as open space due to its designation as a flood plain and a nearby creek.

However, she said, the setbacks of the future homes from the road could cause homeowners with too short of driveways to either park on the street or block the sidewalk, posing a potential safety risk for pedestrians meandering around the vehicles.

Daniel Moore, another Gibsonville-Ossipee Road resident, said that he and his wife were most concerned over the chance of increased flooding, an issue that the resident said has been worsened by runoff from a holding pond on the development property near their home.

Blackman said that the developer intends to fill the pond and direct stormwater drainage away from Moore and his neighbors to one of the development’s future stormwater management systems.

Following some hesitation by the board, alderman Davis Montgomery motioned that the preliminary site plan be approved, saying that the developer must address the issues posed by the residents. Mark Greene seconded Montgomery’s motion, and the site plan was unanimously approved.

Board reaches consensus to hold one meeting a month, starting this week This week’s meeting will be the board’s only one for the month of January, with the aldermen reaching a consensus that, due to the pandemic-related precautions, one meeting a month satisfies the town’s needs. If needed, town manager Richard Roedner explained, the board could schedule an additional meeting.

Until this month, the board has held two meetings each month. The first, an agenda-setting session held on the first Monday, has been characterized by presentations and discussion on items that the board would vote on later during its regular session on the second Tuesday.

As this week’s meeting drew to a close, alderman Monti Allison asked the town manager if deciding on the spot to have the January 4 meeting be the town’s only gathering for the month was legal. Roedner said that under the circumstances of the pandemic, which had prompted the cancellation of a second meeting, he considered it to be allowed.

On Sept. 2, 1890, the Christian Church saw its dream become a reality as it successfully opened Elon College and began more than a century of excellence in Alamance County.

As it welcomes its newest class of students to campus, Elon is also celebrating a special milestone this month. Sept. 2, 2020, marks 130 years since the university first opened its doors to students.

Founded by the Christian Church, Elon welcomed 76 students to campus that year. It was an idea nearly two decades in the making, as the Christian Church first began pursuing the construction of a college in Alamance County in 1872.

A board of 15 trustees and five provisional board members was charged with finding a location for the school. Initially the group set its sights on a space in Graham, North Carolina, near the New Providence Christian Church, the largest church conference and a supporter of the project. The site would also be near the old Graham College, which could have served as a preparatory school to provide students for the new college campus.

Despite its efforts, the board was unable to secure enough land in Graham for the build, so members turned to another option – Mill Point. The Mill Point railroad depot served as a shipping point for textile mills in Ossipee and Altamahaw, North Carolina.

James N. Williamson, owner of the Ossipee Mill, and the owners of the Altamahaw Mill wanted to bring new business to the area around the depot to justify keeping it open – they saw a college and surrounding village as the perfect fit. On Dec. 22, 1888, the board decided to pursue a build at Mill Point, thanks to Williamson, Mill Point land owner William H. Trollinger and many other contributors.

“The list of contributors found in the cornerstone box of the first building credits Trollinger with a contribution of 32 acres of land and Williamson with a gift of $750, the largest cash donation recorded,” wrote the late University Historian George Troxler in “From a Grove of Oaks: The Story of Elon University.”

The board officially received a charter for the college on March 11, 1889, and purchased 86.81 acres of land for $281.51. Some of the land was reserved for campus space while the rest was sold for residential and commercial use to raise funds for the construction of the college.

The construction began with the removal of trees. Larger trees were cut down to make wood to fuel brick kilns. But, a few very special trees were left behind.

“The smaller oaks on the campus were left and grew to become the grove of mature oaks with which future generations of alumni would identify,” Troxler wrote.

The college, which would have originally been named “Bon Air,” had to search for a new name because Bon Air was already the name of another town along the railway. Although it’s unclear who suggested the name, the board eventually came up with “Elon,” the Hebrew word for “oak.”

Elon College officially opened its doors a year after receiving its charter. Students had access to two buildings by the end of 1890: Main Building, which housed the auditorium, library, society halls, offices and classrooms, as well as East Dormitory.

Today, Elon sits on more than 600 acres and is home to more than 6,000 students. The campus is situated among streets like Williamson and Trollinger Avenues, recognizing some of the key figures who, 130 years ago, helped bring the idea of a college in Mill Point to life.

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ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — As the Alamance-Burlington School System continues its battle against mold impacting multiple campuses in their district, a more dangerous variety has been discovered in multiple schools.

ABSS announced on Wednesday morning that environmental inspectors were assessing campuses as they continue to war against the mold that has been discovered at multiple campuses when they discovered toxigenic mold at Cummings High School and Broadview Middle School.

“Remediation efforts are now underway at both schools,” the district said.

The type of mold found is called “Chaetomium” which inspectors say is from “invasive water damage over time.”

On Friday, FOX8 learned toxic airborne mold was discovered at the following five schools:

The school district says it has accelerated testing, however, protocols are different for toxigenic mold. This will involve cleaning and removing sheetrock, furniture and building materials that are impacted.

Andrews and Newlin Elementary Schools have completed their remediation. The remediation is underway at:

Alamance-Burlington School Systems delayed the start of the school year until Tuesday, Sept. 5, due to the ongoing mold issues, but no word on if the first day will be further delayed.

“We are in crisis mode. We ask for patience and adaptability on behalf of our families and our staff as we move forward in the coming days,” said Sandy Ellington-Graves, board chair of the Alamance-Burlington Board of Education.

Ellington-Graves’ statement comes after a joint meeting on Friday between the BoE and the Alamance County Commissioners.

The commissioners agreed to provide an additional approximate $7 million to ABSS for mold remediation efforts.

With this latest allocation, the county has now granted more than $17 million total to combat mold issues and make urgent HVAC repairs in ABSS schools.

Like millions, we watched with horror and fascination as the slowly moving black-and-Halloween-orange blob devoured a car and set everything in its path ablaze. Pele, the fire goddess who in religion and lore lives in Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, is demonstrating her power. The lake of molten lava that filled the volcano’s crater has been falling as it spews out of cracks in two residential neighborhoods on the chain’s biggest island. Any day now, volcanologists say, rocks from the walls of the crater could collapse and form a plug that allows steam to build up, setting the stage for a massive explosion.

Meanwhile, fans of apocalyptic endings are buzzing about the hundreds of earthquakes that have been shaking Yellowstone National Park and causing a long-dormant geyser to erupt. Yellowstone, it seems, is one giant supervolcano. Its eruption could conceivably spew enough ash into the atmosphere to cause an ice age. Not to worry, the U.S. Geological Survey reports. The odds of its eruption in any given year are 1 in 730,000 and Western states should be safe for at least the next 1,000 years.

Could something like that happen here in New Hampshire? It already has, but humans weren’t around to see it.

The Granite State is home to at least two extinct volcanoes. Most people live, visit or pass through them unaware that deep below, the earth once bubbled beneath their feet. One of the ancient volcanoes is even famous in geological circles: the Ossipee Ring Dike. Its eroded mountains formed the cone of a volcano believed to have been about 10,000 feet tall. The volcano erupted some 100 million years ago and again 10 million years later. Today, the tallest peak left, at just under 3,000 feet, is Mount Shaw.

The towns of Ossipee, South Tamworth, Tuftonboro and Moultonborough are on the rim. In the center of the circular mountain range is the Ossipee caldera, the filled cauldron of the collapsed volcano.

The ring dike has been much studied. The late New Hampshire state geologist Eugene Bourdette once called it “the most accessible, exposed and vivid example of the inner workings of a volcanic system.” It draws geologists and their students from the world over. Its circular layout can be seen from Castle in the Clouds and from a boat on 180-foot deep Dan Hole Pond. The pond fills what was once a vent on the side of the volcano.

New Hampshire’s volcanic history is responsible for the wealth of crystalline minerals, some semiprecious or precious, that can be found in the Ossipee Range. Within its once-molten granite can be found topaz, tourmaline, amethyst, garnet, beryl (the state mineral) and smoky quartz (the state gem).

Pawtuckaway State Park is at the center of another, much smaller volcanic ring dike. It’s sometimes referred to as the Dragon’s Eye because it’s in the middle of concentric rings of mountains formed by magma that rose up from a hot spot deep below.

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