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  • Kids Push Apex to Build Bike Trails
  • Officials Warn of Rampant Fraud in NC
  • Teachers Spend Hundreds on School Supplies
  • Behind the Scenes: The Summer I Turned Pretty
  • Best Outdoor Spots Within an Hour of Raleigh
Credit: Courtesy of Charleston Village parents

Good morning, readers.

I’ve written a lot this year about recreational third spaces and the communities they foster. 

From the bike trails around Lake Crabtree to a beloved DIY skate park in Raleigh, these places give the people who use them a sense of purpose and belonging while getting them outdoors and off screens. 

Unfortunately, I’ve also written about what happens to these spaces when the forces of growth and development inevitably catch up with them: they close or they’re demolished. 

Often, when their spaces are gone, the people who built them turn to their local governments for help. In this most recent story about a group of kids from Apex’s Charleston Village neighborhood who lost the bike jumps they built, instead of being met with silence or indifference, they found local leaders who listened to them and seemed to be supportive.

With the help of the nonprofit Triangle Off-Road Cyclists (TORC), the Charleston Village kids are imagining and planning a way to claim underutilized public property to replace a space they loved and a community they lost. If they’re successful, it could serve as a model for how we can use such spaces all across the Triangle as the region continues to grow.

Read the story below and have a good Monday.

—Jane

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Fraud Alert

With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau kneecapped by the Trump administration, scams are proliferating, North Carolina officials warn. INDY’s Chloe Courtney Bohl reports.

North Carolina teachers spend hundreds of dollars each year on supplies for their classrooms. They typically leave WakeEd's location with $150 o $200 in free supplies.
Credit: Photo by Chase Pellegrini de Paur

Supply and Demand

Nationally, North Carolina teachers spend among the most on their own classroom supplies, and also earn some of the lowest pay. INDY’s Chase Pellegrini de Paur reports from a Wake nonprofit trying to split the costs.

On Location

The hit Amazon Prime series The Summer I Turned Pretty filmed its recently released final season in Chapel Hill. The Assembly has a behind-the-scenes look at the production.

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STATE: Lawsuits from bar owners who say they were unfairly targeted by then-Governor Roy Cooper’s COVID-19 lockdown orders can move forward in court, ABC11 reports.

DURHAM COUNTY: Durham Rising, a coalition of unions and social justice organizations pushing Duke University to invest more in the people of Durham sent out a mass text to residents last week, prompting one of the university’s only public acknowledgements of the group, The Chronicle reports.

ORANGE COUNTY: A mural created in solidarity with Palestine was covered up at UNC on the orders of the chancellor interim provost, The Daily Tar Heel reports.

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