The Edition on Rosemary will not be able to meet its Oct. 1 move-in date, according to an email statement from Adam Byrley, chief operating officer of The Preiss Company.
Following the Aug. 28 shooting on UNC's campus, mental health specialists with Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools discuss the best ways to support students, who have grown up experiencing active shooter drills and seeing incidents of gun violence in classrooms across the country. In 2023 alone, there have been 86 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in the United States.
A new law in North Carolina restricts gender-affirming care for minors. One of the sponsors of the bill said his major motivation was to protect children from being preyed upon, but members of the LGBTQ+ community often struggle with their mental health, and research has shown children often strongly identify with a certain gender by age 4.
“All of a sudden, today — what was supposed to be just another standard day for me — is now in theory life or death, potentially,” Christopher Lipscomb, an admissions ambassador at UNC, said.
Future residents of a new apartment building on Rosemary Street received an email on July 19 informing them they wouldn't be able to move in until Oct. 1. As they wait to be able to move into The Edition, they are staying at one of three hotels in Chapel Hill. Construction is being stalled by a degraded water main underneath Rosemary Street.
On April 10, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein and two dozen other attorney generals filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding the recent district court order that suspended the approval of mifepristone, an abortion pill. The district court's order will be paused until Wednesday, April 19 at 11:59 p.m. while the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to grant the Biden administration’s emergency request to preserve the FDA’s approval. “Abortion is a deeply personal decision and is an issue that people have wide-ranging opinions. But, ultimately, that's a decision that women should have the freedom to make for themselves,” Stein said. “And that's why I'm in court fighting to ensure women can continue to access this medication.”
“That is basically the main purpose of the Rogers Community Center,” RENA President Robert Campbell said. “To give voice to a marginalized community so they can have a voice into policies and programs that exist around us.”
As of the 2022 to 2023 school year, AP African American Studies has started piloting in 60 schools across the country and will soon expand to approximately 200 schools, including Chapel Hill High School, in the coming school year.
Meet Dave Jernigan, Jonathan Mills and Isabella Romine: three North Carolinians who played, and still play, significant roles in helping Ukrainian refugees since the Russian invasion over a year ago. “Lviv — it's a really beautiful place,” Jernigan said. “It’s a very vibrant city, but everywhere you look you see trauma.” In one of his volunteer roles, Jernigan said he helped convert a network of Soviet-era tunnels under hospitals into air raid shelters so patients and doctors could evacuate — sometimes mid-surgery — if imminent danger were to arise.
Chapel Hill has seen a rise in gun violence-related incidents in the past year, with the most recent shooting at the Chapel Ridge apartment complex on Jan. 12. Last year saw five fatal shootings in Chapel Hill, an increase from the one fatal shooting that occurred in 2021.
