I was walking up to Cocoa Cinnamon this morning when I noticed that the demolition of the Liberty Warehouse had begun on the Foster Street side of the building. Foster Street, between Corporation and Hunt streets, has been closed for several weeks as construction crews worked on the dismantling. I shot this with my iPhone, […]
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Durham City Council to discuss changes to police searches, pot arrests on Tuesday
It has been a summer of discontent. Racial tensions, police shootings of unarmed black men in several states, the growing mistrust between Durham cops and the African-American community: It was against this backdrop that City Manager Tom Bonfield released his report to City Council Thursday about ways to improve the Durham Police Department. More than […]
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A warm, tasty evening at Durham’s Oval Park Grille
Oval Park Grille 1116 Broad St.,Durham 919-401-6566, www.ovalparkgrille.com Monday–Friday 5–11 p.m. Saturday–Sunday 11 a.m.–11 p.m. This is what Iceland tastes like. With our spoons, we cut a vanilla fjord from a glacier of house-made ice cream. We carved skerries of cake from a lava bed of warm chocolate. If we could have, we would have […]
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Out of the bathtub and into Durham: A gin distillery to open in the Central Park neighborhood
The sweet scent of mash could eventually wash through the Central Park neighborhood, as the Durham Distillery announced it will open a gin manufacturing facility and retail sales/ tasting room next year at 711 N. Washington St., next to the future Blue Note Grill. This is just a block from Tyler’s Distillery, which will make […]
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Helicopters, assault vehicles and more: The federal arsenal in the hands of local law enforcement
Wake County law enforcement agencies received nine observation helicopters, Orange got two combat assault tactical wheeled vehicles. And in 2013, their counterparts in Harnett County procured extreme cold weather parkas, even though the all-time record low of minus 4 degrees occurred nearly 30 years ago. Long before police used military-style weapons on protesters Ferguson, Missouri—during […]
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Art Pope’s annual salary was $1. That was 99 cents too much.
When Gov. Pat McCrory appointed millionaire conservative Art Pope as state deputy budget director early last year, Pope agreed to accept an annual salary of $1. This was not a chivalrous demonstration of his frugality and commitment to the state’s financial health; it was a charade. In 2011 and 2012, Pope and his affiliates had […]
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Durham development: What’s being built where and who can afford it?
Public school teachers, low-level city workers, even journalists can’t afford many, if not most, of the 2,400 new apartments and condos being built in central Durham. The Lofts at Southside is only new project that approaches affordability for households earning the area’s median income. It is heavily subsidized with public tax dollars and combines housing […]
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Durham Historic Preservation Commission sends Greystone plan back for more work
Note: This story has been corrected regarding the project and its compliance with zoning of the site. As diplomatically yet directly as it could, the Durham Historic Preservation Commission on Tuesday morning dissected Lomax Properties’ proposal for 140 new apartments to be built on a 3.6-acre meadow in Morehead Hill. [pdf-1] You could almost hear […]
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Apartments slated for meadow next to Greystone Inn in Morehead Hill
The three-acre, tree-studded meadow next to the Greystone Inn on Morehead Avenue would be clearcut for 140 apartments, according to a proposal that will come before the Durham Historic Preservation Commission this week. [pdf-1] Under the proposal, Greensboro developer Lomax Properties would construct three buildings, varying from two to five stories, to house 140 units […]
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The characters of downtown Durham: a veteran with sore feet
Main Street in Durham is on the Bull City Connector line, a free bus that runs from Golden Belt on the east side to the VA hospital on the west. So I meet a lot of veterans downtown as they wait for the bus to take them to their doctor’s appointments. Some of the veterans […]
