Convenience store chain Sheetz announced Wednesday that it will build a distribution and food manufacturing facility in Burlington and create 254 jobs by 2018.

The Pennsylvania company was awarded a state incentives package this morning worth nearly $2 million if it meets hiring and investment goals.

Sheetz plans to invest $32.8 million in the facility, which will support the company's growing number of stores in Virginia and North Carolina.

The company employs more than 14,500 employees and operates 429 stores in six states, including 46 in North Carolina. Most of its stores in North Carolina are concentrated in the Triangle and the Triad.

Sheetz also received incentives packages from the city of Burlington and Alamance County. 

Burlington will provide infrastructure and transportation improvements on the vacant industrial site where the facility will be built.

Alamance is providing Sheetz a grant for $1.12 million to be paid in annual installments of $160,000 beginning in 2014 after the company has built the facility and hired at least 210 full-time employees.

Convenience store chain Sheetz is proposing to build a large distribution facility in Burlington that would create 253 jobs over the next five years.

Burlington and Alamance County officials will vote Tuesday on incentives packages that would be worth more than $1 million to the company if it meets hiring and investment goals.

The state is also offering incentives to the Pennsylvania-based company, said Craig Honeycutt, Alamance’s town manager.

Sheetz would invest $32 million building a new facility on a vacant industrial site in Burlington.

Burlington would provide infrastructure and transportation improvements on the site, Honeycutt said.

Alamance would provide Sheetz a grant for $1.12 million to be paid in annual installments of $160,000 beginning in 2014 after the company has built the facility and hired at least 210 full-time employees. About 40 existing Sheetz employees would be transferred to the Burlington location from a facility out of state.

Sheetz has been searching for a site that would serve its growing collection of stores in the state. The company operates 429 stores in six states, including 46 in North Carolina.

Of the 30 new stores Sheetz expects to open this year, 10 will be in North Carolina. Most of its stores in the state are concentrated in the Triangle and the Triad.

Defending champion Don Slater of Durham shot a 68 that included a double eagle on the par-5 14th hole and finished with a two-day, 6-under-par 136 to win the Senior Division and overall titles at the Durham Senior Amateur Golf Championship on Tuesday at Hillandale Golf Course.

In the Super Senior Division, Dave Robinson of Burlington rallied from five shots back for the victory. 

Complete results below.

The JoJammers won the silver medal in the women’s softball 55-plus division at the Senior Games of North Carolina State Finals played Sept. 13-15 at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh.

The JoJammers, from the Raleigh Wake Senior Games, finished second to the Why Nots, who advanced from the Alamance Burlington Senior Games.

Results from other divisions are below.

While many of the rest of us were keeping to air-conditioned spaces, more than 800 athletes age 50 to 80-plus were braving the heat and humidity over the past week to compete in the Senior Softball-USA Eastern National Championships at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh.

Fifty-six teams of 15 players each from east of the Mississippi River competed in 15 divisions and earned the opportunity to compete in the Oct. 15-24 World Championships in Phoenix, said Senior Softball CEO Terry Hennessy of Sacramento, Calif., who was in Raleigh helping conduct the event.

North Carolina was represented by two of the nine women's teams and 11 of the 47 men's teams in age groups ranging from Women's 40 to Men's 80. The Carolina Cardinals of Apex won the Men's 70 Silver title in a showdown of N.C. teams, defeating the Burlington 70s 20-11, and the Carolina Cobras of Chapel Hill finished second in the Men's 55 AAA Division, losing 21-8 to Eagle Tile of Stevensville, Md., in the event's final game Sunday evening. Code Electric of Wake Forest finished fourth in the Men's 60 AAA.

Laura Wearn of Charlotte led wire-to-wire in winning her first major championship title by four strokes over defending champion Katherine Perry of Cary at the 61st N.C. Women's Amateur Championship in Gastonia.

Wearn's final round 74 was the highest round she shot throughout the N.C. Women's Golf Association www.ncwga.com event, which was played Tuesday through Thursday at the 6,024-yard, par-36-36--72 Gaston Country Club layout.

Lori Beth Adams of Burlington was third, followed by Corrine Carr of Pinehurst in a tie for fourth. Courtney Rouse of Holly Springs was seventh, and Wendell's Ashley Denton shared ninth.

Wet playing conditions didn't deter the 86 players from around the
state who turned out for the first round of the inaugural Durham Senior
Amateur golf tournament on Monday at Hillandale Golf Course.

Burlington's Wayne Pyrtle led the way by shooting a 3-under-par 68 to
top the Senior Division and overall standings. Durham's Don Slater was
second at 69, and Durham's Michael Frye and Jamestown's Larry Boswell
shared third at 70.

In the Super Senior Division for players 65 and older, Raleigh's Bob
Rudolph and Southern Pines' Dean Hundley topped the leaderboard with
71s. Chapel Hill's Ron Johnston was at 72.

Medical-testing testing company LabCorp wants to consolidate its billing operations and could receive nearly $900,000 in taxpayer incentives if it chooses a site in Greensboro.

The Burlington-based company is reportedly considering moving its billing operations from 24 sites across the country to one location in Greensboro or in Danville, Va. The move would bring 373 jobs to Greensboro.

On Thursday, Guilford County commissioners approved giving the company $248,791. Greensboro also is offering $373,000. And the state would contribute a $275,000 grant, Dan Lynch, president of the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance told the Greensboro News-Record.

The jobs would pay about $27,000 a year. LabCorp employs about 28,000 workers worldwide, including more than 1,000 in the Triangle.

See photos of how far the historic Glencoe Mill Village in Burlington, N.C. has come.