🌱 Fire closes Mebane's 2 Twelve restaurant; no injuries reported
Efland, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min readGood morning Efland! We're back in your inbox this morning to keep you in the loop with what's happening in and around town. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- Fire closes Mebane's 2 Twelve restaurant; no injuries reported
- Remembering Barbara Lloyd Tew, longtime Alamance County educator
Also on today's calendar: 17th Annual Trail Run/Walk at Chestnut Ridge.
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 71 and low of 46 degrees.
- Thursday: Partly sunny, a stray t-storm, temps: high: 69, low: 39.
- Friday: Cooler with variable clouds, with a high of 55 and low of 33 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Fire causes extensive damage to Mebane restaurant; no injuries reported (dailydispatch.com) — A Friday night kitchen fire has closed Mebane's 2 Twelve Seasonal Kitchen + Bar indefinitely, with extensive damage but no injuries reported. Efland volunteers helped Mebane and Haw River firefighters bring the blaze under control. The restaurant was closed when the fire broke out, and neighboring businesses were unaffected. 
• Barbara Lloyd Tew (alamancenews.com) — Barbara Lloyd Tew, a longtime Alamance County teacher and principal, died Nov. 7 at 89. The Haw River native spent more than 30 years in North Carolina public schools before helping schools nationwide implement IBM's Writing to Read program. Her survivors include grandson Seth Carver of Efland.
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