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Vigil held to mourn victims of crash one year later
On the one-year anniversary of her mother's death, DeSeante Jones continues to mourn the woman she had looked forward to sharing her life with.
New mural to come to Carrboro
The creative minds behind Carrboro’s new mural never went to art school — in fact, they’re in the third grade.
Target coming to Franklin Street in 2017
A cheap grocery shopping option, long missing from Chapel Hill's central downtown, could be open for business as soon as summer 2017.
Vinyl Perk leaves Rosemary location
The nearly 5,000 vinyl records stored at Vinyl Perk, Carrboro’s quirky combination record store and coffee shop, have been carefully filed away into storage as business owner Jay Reeves searches for a new location.
Training targets child sexual assault
Ninety percent of children who are sexually abused know their abuser personally.
Chapel Hill Public Library grant to fund mobile pop-up library
Library services in Chapel Hill are about to go mobile. Thanks to a nearly $100,000 federal grant, the Chapel Hill Public Library will debut a pop-up library to be completed by late spring of next year.
Carrboro celebrates pollinator populations
As populations of honeybees continue to decline nationwide, Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle has declared June 19 through June 26 Carrboro Pollinator Week.
Vigils honored victims of the Orlando shooting
Rainbow flags flew and contemplative words were spoken — both in Spanish and in English — across Chapel Hill this week as communities gathered to commemorate the lives of the 49 people killed by a shooter in an Orlando nightclub.
An incident at Chapel Hill High prompts NAACP involvement
An incident at Chapel Hill High School has raised questions about how schools approach discipline for assaults and other violent behavior — especially when the students involved are racial minorities.
Ceremony marks grand opening of Japanese candy factory in Mebane
Business leaders and local officials cut a ribbon and took hammers to a barrel of sake to mark the grand opening of the Morinaga America, Inc., production facility in Mebane on Thursday.
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Town Council approves three special use permits
Special use permits for three new developments were approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday.
Orange County leaders travel to Georgia for Inter-City Visit 2014
From school officials to city planners to council members, almost a hundred Orange County leaders...
Public gives input on traffic issues in Glen Lennox mixed-use development
Traffic concerns dominated the discussion at the Glen Lennox public input session Tuesday.
County confirms details for Rogers Road Community Center operations
The doors of the Rogers Road Community Center are closer to opening after the Orange County Board of Commissioners approved the center’s operations agreement Tuesday.
County must reroute budget for threatened transit services
After changes in state funding threatened local bus services last year, Triangle Transit went into panic mode.
Commissioners concerned over possible fair costs
A self-sustaining Orange County fair remains on the table for future discussion — but the total cost, required staff and venue location are causing concern.
What's All the Bus About: the F route
Most commuters on the F route don’t ever encounter one demographic the bus caters to — kids. Bright and early every weekday morning, while it’s still dark and before most adults need the bus, the F route picks up McDougle Middle School students and drops them off on Fayetteville Rd.