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Save the Music profiles: these local musicians are creating their own sounds

By Charity Cohen | April 28

The Downtown Chapel Hill Partnership launched “Save The Music” last year, and is giving local artists a platform to perform outside of businesses ...

Here are the newest affordable housing projects coming to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area

By Cloris Huan | April 27

Two new affordable housing projects, the Cobb Street project and Perry Place project, are coming to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. Here's what you need ...

UNC is requesting an expansion of joint jurisdiction to cover Greek life housing near campus

By Hannah Rosenberger | April 22

In March, the University requested to expand its joint jurisdiction policy between the Chapel Hill Police Department and UNC Police. The goal would be ...

Chapel Hill's Chelsea Theater reopens after yearlong closure due to COVID-19

By Chloe Teachey | April 21

The Chelsea Theater, a Chapel Hill cinema that shows independent and documentary films, closed in March 2020 due to the pandemic. One year later, it's ...

All up in your business: Mexican restaurant Que Chula approaches one-year anniversary

By Charlotte Easley | April 21

Que Chula Craft Tacos & Tequila Bar, a Mexican restaurant that offers authentic and Tex-Mex style dishes such as street tacos, burritos, chimichangas ...

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Column: Chapel Hill's affordable housing isn't affordable enough

By Ben Rappaport | April 20

Affordable housing is critical to achieving social equity and economic security for everyone. Chapel Hill needs to recognize just how critical it is as ...

Orange County Health Department creates community health and racial equity webpage

By Caroline Kelly | April 15

The webpage, which comes after nearly four years of collaboration and input from the community, features content that is updated with information and ...

UNC MFA candidates find global implications in personal stories for Ackland exhibit

By Sophia Ramirez | April 15

In media ranging from pencil and oil on canvas to fluorescent light and projected video, the selected works of the students illustrate that, in the words ...

Chapel Hill declares climate emergency, encourages other municipalities to do the same

By Ella Layn | April 13

The Town worked with community members and environmental organization Sunrise Movement Chapel Hill to revise its Climate Action and Response plan, which ...

Edith Wiggins leaves behind a storied legacy in the Chapel Hill community

By Susie Webb | April 11

Edith Wiggins, UNC’s first African American vice chancellor and dean of student affairs and former director of the Campus Y, died on April 4. Wiggins ...

Former youth prison turned radioactive waste decay site operated by UNC

By Helen McGinnis | April 9

The Chapel Hill Youth Development and Research Unit, now known as Chydaru, was an experimental youth prison that was later repurposed as a radioactive ...

A guide to outdoor activities in Chapel Hill and Carrboro

By Cloris Huan | April 5

Although restrictions in the state are lifting, there are still many outdoor, COVID-safe activities in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area.

Proposed Aura development draws comments over traffic and affordable housing concerns

By Trevor Moore | March 30

Chapel Hill's advisory boards are considering if they want to recommend the project before it is sent to the Town Council for a final decision. If approved, ...

CHCCS students return to in-person classes

CHCCS students, teachers return to in-person instruction for the first time in a year

By Jacob Meredith-Andrews | March 30

On Friday morning, about one hundred students returned to Frank Porter Graham Elementary School to finish out their first week of in-person instruction ...

'I Was Still Singing' offers digital look at Black women's history in Chapel Hill

By Niharika Vattikonda | March 29

Led by community historian Danita Mason-Hogans, “I Was Still Singing” offers a look into the perspectives of the Black women who shaped Chapel Hill's ...

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Chapel Hill Public Library recognized as finalist for national medal

By Ellis Riggsbee | March 25

Each national medal finalist will have a social media spotlight day, and the CHPL will be featured for its spotlight day on April 30. On that day, the ...

CHTC shows concern about proposed student apartments, adopts anti-hate crime resolution

By Ella Layn | March 25

The proposed apartment complex, The Flats, would bring approximately 200 new apartment units and a 450 space parking deck to southern Martin Luther King ...

Chapel Hill unveils 'New Voices' project, highlighting Town's different cultures

By Valeria Cloës | March 24

“I just want the community to feel welcomed into this space – that they are represented and that they feel enlivened by the artwork,” artist Victoria ...

Asian American community supports one another in wake of Atlanta shootings

By Praveena Somasundaram | March 23

Dozens of community members gathered at the Peace and Justice Plaza Sunday to remember and honor the victims of the recent shootings at Atlanta-area spas. ...

Re-Imagining Community Task Force hosts racial equity, public safety listening sessions

By Kelli Rainer | March 21

The task force, originally established on June 24, 2020 by the Chapel Hill Town Council, has been hosting a series of listening sessions for local citizens ...