When the Orange County Health Department forced cooking schools to comply with seemingly unfair regulations, the owners of those schools decided to fight back. Cooking schools at A Southern Season in Chapel Hill and C’est si Bon in Carrboro helped change health department regulations that required cooking schools that teach people to cook at home […]
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NCSU’s Turtle Rescue Team helps wounded turtles come out of their shell
Video Hear the heart beat monitor and watch scenes from Van Gogh’s surgery in this short video. I found an injured or sick turtle. Now what? Wear latex gloves when handling turtles, or wash your hands after handling them without gloves. Keep your hands away from the turtle’s mouth, especially if you find a snapping […]
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Sam Stephenson: The Jazz Loft and the other side of history
Sam Stephenson‘s career has been a wandering path punctuated by serendipity, leading him from a degree in economics at UNC-Chapel Hill to jobs in economic policy in Washington, D.C., from the Duke Center for Documentary Studies to the archives of the University of Arizona library, where he found the tapes and photographs that would become […]
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Weatherization program still seeking applicants; nearly half of federal funds remain
Agencies across North Carolina are seeking low-income families to apply for the Weatherization Assistance Program, which provides home improvements that can cut utility bills and make homes safer and more energy efficient. The Weatherization Assistance Program provides low-income households with an energy audit that tests for air infiltration, heat loss and carbon monoxide levels. The […]
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A form of street art, yarn bombing brightens dreary, hostile urban spaces
When the Carrboro Arts Committee proposed a yarn bombing project to the Board of Aldermen, its members envisioned lampposts brightened by blue and yellow cozies, benches warmed by rainbow-colored blankets and a town covered in color in unexpected places. The Carrboro yarn bombing project is an example of mainstream acceptance of this guerilla form of […]
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Bank postpones Greenbridge June 27 foreclosure auction to allow negotiations for potential debt purchase
File photo by Jeremy M. Lange Bank of America has indefinitely postponed the auction for Greenbridge, a prominent mixed-use development at 601 W. Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill that is facing foreclosure, Bank of America spokeswoman Shirley Norton confirmed. The auction was previously scheduled for June 27. Bank of America postponed the foreclosure auction to […]
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Charles Brown files civil suit against Chapel Hill, police
Charles Brown, the black business owner whose complaint against the Chapel Hill Police Department helped reignite the campaign for a civilian police review board in Chapel Hill, has filed a lawsuit against the Town of Chapel Hill and the Chapel Hill police officers accused of falsely detaining him in 2009. The complaints against the Town […]
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Greenbridge set for June 27 auction
The “best life in town,” as the commercials promised, is being sold to the highest bidder on June 27, when Bank of America plans to foreclose on Greenbridge—the 10-story, 217,000 square foot residential and retail development on West Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill. The property will be put up for public auction at the Orange […]
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Spoke ‘n Revolutions teen cyclists to trace route of Underground Railroad
For updates throughout Spoke ‘n Revolutions’ journey, see their Facebook, Twitter and blog. In the 1800s, an estimated 100,000 people learned the meaning of freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. This summer, 10 high school students from Chapel Hill and their four chaperones will follow that same path to learn their own meaning of […]
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Census: The Triangle’s top slave owners
Although slavery was an important part of antebellum North Carolina life, it was not as prominent here as in other Southern states. According to the 1860 census, there were 661,563 whites and 331,059 enslaved persons in North Carolina. Only a quarter of the white population owned slaves, and only a small portion of those slave […]