Gov. Bev Perdue announced today that a major tech company, EMC Corp., has plans to expand in the Triangle, bringing nearly 400 new, high-paying jobs to Durham and Wake counties – 292 jobs to Durham and 105 to Apex. The jobs will have an average salary of more than $73,000 per year, not including benefits. […]
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Bill and Melinda Gates surprise Durham students
Though some students at the Durham Performance Learning Center figured it out in advance, most were still surprised when Bill and Melinda Gates stopped by their school Thursday morning. Through their eponymous charitable foundation, Microsoft mogul Bill Gates and his wife Melinda awarded start-up money for the Performance Learning Center three years ago. The school […]
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Surprise guest tomorrow at Durham school
The Durham Performance Learning Center, a small alternative high school in the Northgate Mall, is expecting a very important guest tomorrow, according to Principal Danny Gilfort. Students are expecting someone famous to tour the facility tomorrow, but they’ll probably be surprised when he walks through their doors. Tune in tomorrow afternoon. Though the media is […]
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The Know Book Store could be squeezed out of the revitalization plan
There’s no going back now. In deciding whether to grant Mozella McLaughlin $175,000 in neighborhood revitalization funds to renovate her building at 2520 Fayetteville St., Durham city officials have found themselves in the very predicament they were trying to avoidbeing mired in a tenuous dispute between a landlord and her tenant. Giving the money to […]
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Council pushes vote on Know’s fate to Oct. 5
To fund or not to fund? Durham’s city council still hasn’t decided. After two hours of deliberation Monday night, some council members said they still had too many questions to decide whether to help pay for the revitalization of 2520 Fayetteville Street, a controversial decision that could displace the Know Book Store, the building’s current […]