Greensboro, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference Football Players of the Week have been recognized following their standout performances in last weekend’s games. The selections are determined by a vote of a 16-member media panel. The following are this week’s…
Raleigh, NC – The N.C. Department of Transportation has begun distributing nearly $132.7 million in State Street Aid to Municipalities, also known as Powell Bill funds, to 508 municipalities across the state. The initial allocation, half of the overall total,…
Greensboro, NC – The Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners announced the following football game times and networks for the week of October 9-10. Friday, Oct. 9 Louisville at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m., ESPN (previously announced)Saturday, Oct. 10 Virginia…
By Kevin Roche From the CDC and the Wall Street Journal story, this chart shows excess deaths in certain categories, where the blue bars rise above the trend line averaging prior years. Note especially the impact isolation is having on…
By John Hood Raleigh, NC – The post of lieutenant governor is a constitutional office in North Carolina, and the only one empowered to exercise both legislative and executive powers. Those powers are rather limited, however — casting a vote…
By Douglas Sedlak Pittsboro, NC – A month ago our Chatham County officials created and approved a second health crisis. They prefer you discover the ramifications later. COVID-19 is the first health crisis. This second health crisis is a condition called…
Charlottesville, VA – Duke fell to Virginia, 38-20, Saturday night in Scott Stadium. In a back-and-forth affair, Duke (0-3, 0-3 ACC) won the first and third quarters, while the Cavaliers held the edge during the second and fourth periods. Despite,…
By Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – North Carolina received a “C” for poor fiscal management from the national nonprofit Truth in Accounting. But the Tar Heel State is doing much better than the report suggests. North Carolina’s poor grade ignores a…
By Kevin Roche This is a chart that was put together based on cases reported for various types of schooling. Thanks to Twitter. You can see that in-person has the lowest rate, closely followed by remote, and hybrid is the…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County Solid Waste & Recycling will have mulch sales during the month of October. Mulch sales will take place on Saturdays and Wednesdays in October at the Solid Waste & Recycling Main Facility located at 28…
Pittsboro, NC – It didn’t take Central Carolina Community College graduate Dorothy Rawleigh long to establish herself as one of the state’s top public health educators, though it was hardly a lifelong goal. In fact, when she started to chart…
A recent analysis by financial technology company SmartAsset found the places in North Carolina where people earn the most money. The analysis was one of the factors in a study measuring the places in North Carolina with the most purchasing…
Pittsboro, NC – The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University recently announced its second round of grant recipients for Building a New Digital Economy in NC (BAND-NC). Chatham County was selected as one of the additional ten…
by Raleigh, NC – North Carolina is already the homeschooling capital of the United States. Now the attraction of this education option is soaring higher than ever — thanks not to the actions of its proponents but to the antics…
Pittsboro, NC — The Chatham County Board of Education will convene a special session September 29, 2020, to consider resuming in-person instruction for specific student populations, such as exceptional children in self-contained classrooms and students in preschool. Board members will consider resuming…