As national news stations were reporting that Wade Michael Page had shot and killed six people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin on Aug. 5, Sikhs in Durham, unaware of what was happening, read scriptures for a local child’s birthday celebration. Less than a week later, members of the Sikh Gurudwara of N.C. again read […]
Mechelle Hankerson
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Wanna be startin’ something
A day after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his newly announced running mate, Paul Ryan, left North Carolina, Durham Mayor Bill Bell made it clear that there is no room for Romney’s politics in the state. “We look forward to finishing (our) journey in November by keeping North Carolina blue,” he told a cheering […]
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Durham rallies around Sikh community
Sikh Gurudwara of NC Vigil for Oak Creek Victims – Images by Independent Weekly More than 700 pairs of shoes filled the designated cubbies at the entrance of the Sikh Gurudwara of North Carolina Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil to remember the nine victims and the gunman of the recent shooting at a temple […]
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New ordinance in Wake County allows use of TNR method to control cat population
Know your cats FERAL—Untamed cats whose unsocial behavior toward people makes them unsuitable as pets. Feral cats were often born in the wild or have lived so long in the wild that they are no longer comfortable around humans. STRAY—Previously owned cats that have been lost or abandoned outside. Because of their prior contact with […]
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Future of former Pauli Murray home uncertain
Related story “Durham activist Pauli Murray elevated to Episcopal sainthood” was originally published on Triangulator, the Indy‘s news blog. The house at 906 Carroll St. looks older than the other houses in the neighborhood, mostly because it is. At 102 years old, the former home of Episcopal saint Pauli Murray wears its age: crumbling stone […]
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Durham activist Pauli Murray elevated to Episcopal sainthood
By the time the incense began burning to start the traditional service at St. Titus Episcopal Church Wednesday night, 300 people had crowded into a space capable of seating 100. At the fourth annual celebration of Pauli Murray’s life at St. Titus, community members crowded the church Murray worshipped at as a young girl to […]
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Former Frazier’s chef joins Piedmont
After a nationwide search, the Piedmont restaurant in Durham announced today it has hired Jeffrey Satterly of Frazier’s in Raleigh as the new Chef de Cuisine. According to Jamie DeMent, one of the partners of Eno Hospitality Group, which owns the Piedmont, hiring a new chef entailed not only interviews but also a “local Iron […]