Another zoning battle is brewing in Raleigh, between an out-of-state developer and neighbors who say a high-rise student-housing project doesn’t fit with the city’s Comprehensive Plan. Phoenix Property Group is pushing to build a six-story, 200-plus-unit complex at the corner of Avant Ferry Road and Varsity Drive. The property is immediately across from N.C. State […]
Jane Porter
Jane Porter is Wake County editor of the INDY, covering Raleigh and other communities across Wake County. She first joined the staff in 2013 and is a former INDY intern, staff writer, and editor-in-chief, first joining the staff in 2013.
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N.C. protestors refuse deal from courts
Deborah Feruccio was arrested during a sit-in at the State Capitol in June, for trespassing. The Warren County environmentalist and ten others, calling themselves the McCrory 11, had just delivered a letter to the Governor requesting measures to stop fracking, clean up coal ash pollution and expand Medicaid. Today, she and three other protestors are […]
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Pittsboro Matters sues town over Chatham Park
Many Pittsboro residents feel they are being bullied by Chatham Park investors, and they say the town’s leaders are complicit. Citizens’ group Pittsboro Matters filed a lawsuit in Chatham County Superior Court last week, suing the Town Board of Commissioners and challenging its decision to approve the re-zoning of 7,120 acres for Chatham Park. Described […]
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Acts 29 founder removed from Acts 29
Conservative pastor Mark Driscoll and his Seattle church were removed from the Acts 29 church-planting network Driscoll founded in 1998. The network counts more than 500 member churches, with 16 located in North Carolina and five in Raleigh alone. An August 8 message posted to the Acts 29 website confirms that Driscoll and his Mars […]
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Hofmann Sale Imminent?
Updated: N.C. State University spokesman Frederick Hartman said this morning that there is no Hofmann Forest closing scheduled for September 23. The June 30 closing date for the sale of Hofmann Forest has come and gone and the forest’s owners—N.C. State University’s Natural Resources Foundation—are anxious to move forward with the sale of the 80,000-acre […]
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Pittsboro residents sue over Chatham Park
Chatham Park is happening. But not without a fight. On Wednesday, citizens group Pittsboro Matters and local residents filed a lawsuit challenging the Pittsboro Town Board’s June vote of approval authorizing Chatham Park. The developers’ plans involve the largest mixed-use planned development ever proposed in North Carolina according to a Pittsboro Matters press release. The […]
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Honeysuckle Tea House’s comforting brews
The Honeysuckle Tea House 8871 Pickards Meadow Road Chapel Hill, 919-903-9131 Sunday–Thursday 9 a.m.–8 p.m. Friday–Saturday 9 a.m.–10 p.m. Brewing your own tea is both an art and a learning experience. This is what I, a lifelong tea lover, learned in a breezy wooden hut on a 16-acre farm deep in rural Orange County, at […]
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Raleigh family fighting eviction from low-income housing
Mary Mosley says the city of Raleigh is trying to evict her from her home of two and a half years, where she lives with her son, Diego, and her grandson, Omarray. The Mosley home is a second-story apartment on a safe stetch of Edenton Street, east of downtown. Comfortable for three people, the apartment […]
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Local craft breweries and artisans to showcase in Raleigh marketplace
This Friday at downtown Raleigh’s Cobblestone Hall, nine local craft breweries and more than forty local artisans will be participating in the first “Hops and Shop” market as part of First Friday. “We’re dubbing it the craftiest market in North Carolina,” says Cristy Bullock, the event’s founder. For ten dollars, attendees will get a pint […]
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N.C. voters want stronger actions from lawmakers on coal ash
A poll taken last week found that most North Carolina voters want lawmakers to do more to get Duke Energy to clean up its coal ash. Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning Raleigh surveying group, found in a poll of 519 voters that more than 75 percent of North Carolinians don’t think the Legislature has made […]