Plans to convert Frank Porter Graham Elementary School to a magnet school were overwhelmingly rejected by children, parents and teachers at a Chapel Hill-Carborro City School System Board of Education meeting Thursday night.
The smell of about 3500 pounds of smoking pork will fill the air in River Park in Hillsborough this weekend.
Chapel Hill Police responded to reports of a shooting incident outside Mary Scroggs Elementary at 2:04 p.m. Friday afternoon, according to reports from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School District.
Nearly four years after the murder of Josh Bailey, the first of his accused murderers has been convicted.
Penny Rich, a Chapel Hill Town Council member and Mark Dorosin, a managing attorney at the UNC Center for Civil Rights, both won the Democratic primary May 8 for the Orange County Board of Commissioners in District 1.
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