The English Premier League season began last Saturday with unprecedented fanfare, and the rain that came with it locally was fitting. For the increasing number of fervent fans of English football, water and mud are commingled with joy and sorrow. Part and parcel of watching the play is the drinking, chanting and singingnot only in […]
Joe Schwartz
Bio: Joe Schwartz is a former INDY Week staff writer who works for soccer.com in Hillsborough. He's been a Gooner since he fell for Thierry Henry in 2005, and he still believes in Arsène Wenger.Email: [email protected]
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Primaries 2012: The early show
Election complaints North Carolina voters in 11 counties were mistakenly given ballots without the Amendment 1 referendum Tuesday. And an Alamance County church that is also a polling place banned campaign signs but instructed voters via its outdoor marquee to vote “for” the amendment “per God’s word.” Those were the most pressing issues reported to […]
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Woodard: Election paperwork was sent, but not received
Mike Woodard Durham City Councilman Mike Woodard, a candidate for N.C. Senate District 22, responded today to claims from competitor Kerry Sutton that he has not filed appropriate forms with the N.C. Ethics Commission and State Board of Elections. Woodard says he learned Friday that the stack of forms he says he sent Feb. 22, […]
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Lee charter school unlikely to open this year, applies for 2013
The Howard and Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School is a long shot to open in August. Its founders are struggling to find a suitable temporary location for the school as they navigating the zoning approval process for a permanent site. Amid opposition from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board and the local NAACP, the North […]
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Study: Durham voters have reason to be confused
Durham County voters have reason to be confused this election season, according to a new metric trotted out Thursday by Democracy NC. The Voter Confusion Index, which measures the total number of split precincts in each county for the General Assembly and U.S. Congressional seats, lists Durham as the third worst. Wake County is 16th. […]
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Needles, glass remain at illegal dumpsite in Durham
On one recent Monday morning, Brendan Love went from pleasantly surprised to pissed off in 10 minutes. “If someone is going to use your neighborhood like a toilet, you really have to stay on them,” he said. Love’s home on the 100 block of Murray Avenue in Durham is adjacent to an illegal dumpsite owned […]
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Sturgeon and caviar farming in Western N.C.
Learn more about the “Got To Be NC” Competition Dining Series, including Fire in the Triangle, June 11–July 24 in Raleigh. It’s noon at Crippen’s Country Inn and Restaurant in Blowing Rock, where two chefs and their teams sit anxiously at the table waiting to discover today’s mystery ingredient. For seven years Crippen’s, a white-tablecloth […]
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From curb to landfill, on the trail of Triangle trash
Billy Maness doesn’t want to live in the big city, but he loves big-city garbage. He is the general manager at Uwharrie Environmental, the 117-acre landfill in Montgomery County that accepts trash from Durham County and, soon, from Orange. Each time a truck makes the winding dirt path to the landfill’s zenith and the driver […]
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA ends formal discussions with YMCA of the Triangle
Young man (and other concerned parties), there’s no need to feel down. The Chapel Hill Carrboro YMCA announced Friday that it ended its pursuit of a formal relationship with the YMCA of the Triangle. Talk of teaming up, including a possible merger, riled the community for 18 months. The Raleigh-based YMCA of the Triangle, which […]
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Veterinary waste mars a vacant lot in North Durham
Walking 100 yards behind Brendan Love’s home in Durham’s Northside neighborhood is like searching for buried treasure. That is, if used syringes, test tubes, X-ray machines, operating tables, computers and other veterinary waste count as treasure. “Here we’ve got some kind of exam table and cages and this tank,” Love says, poking through brush, his […]