Imagine an educational system where everybody is working together, where we acknowledge, one size doesn’t fit all. Further imagine a system where every child receives a quality education regardless of address or household income. Now imagine that graduates from this system can live and work in Chatham. A system where our commissioners, school board, charter schools, EDC, and the community college work as ONE team with ONE goal.
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President Obama plans to appoint National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg to the United States Supreme Court. Not really, of course. Totenberg may know more than most lawyers about the Supreme Court from her experience as an award-winning legal affairs correspondent for NPR. But she is not a lawyer, and you have to be a lawyer to be on the court. Don’t you?
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University of North Carolina head coach Larry Fedora has suspended sophomore Des Lawrence, redshirt freshman Donnie Miles, freshman M.J. Stewart and sophomore Brian Walker for Saturday’s game against Liberty. The one-game suspension stems from a violation of team policy.
The public is invited to attend the dedication ceremony for the Chatham County First Responders’ Memorial at 3 p.m. September 6 in Pittsboro. The memorial incorporates the 19-foot steel beam artifact from the World Trade Center tragedy, donated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The memorial honors all first responders who have given their lives to keep others safe, including those who died on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Video: Setting the 9/11 beam for the First Responder Memorial in Pittsboro
Looks like the former leader of the Chatham Coalition hate group, Jeffrey Starkweather has filed a lawsuit against Chatham Park and the town of Pittsboro. According to the court filing, here is a list of Jeff Starkweather’s framily that is suing Pittsb…
Raycom Sports will preview the upcoming Atlantic Coast Conference football season this weekend with the ACC Blitz Kick-Off Special, hosted by Tom Werme and Tommy Bowden. The show includes features on the #1-ranked defending national champion Florida State Seminoles and the reigning Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jameis Winston, and a look back at Duke’s run last season to their first Coastal Division championship.
From John Graybeal’s Chatham Chatlist #5015 post: “One wonders whether these activities explain why these commissioners decided one meeting each month would be better than two.” I’ve copied the minutes from the County BOC budget retreat on January 19th…
The Chatham Economic Development Corporation (EDC) learned on August 22, 2014 that the NC Rural Infrastructure Authority in the NC Department of Commerce had approved a pre-application that authorizes Carolina Premium Foods to apply for a $750,000 gran…
I can appreciate that there is frustration that the Chatham Arts Council is not government funded. It’s just that Brian Bock, Pam Stewart and Walter Petty campaigned and have governed on three guiding priorities: Public Safety, Education and Public Hea…
Pittsboro, NC – The Northwood Chargers held their annual football Jamboree on Friday evening, August 15. Below are three videos from the event. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4A33Z8iuYY[/tube] (2:52) [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN0ItaDnuwM[/tube] (1:40) [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vin85nWbz0[/tube] (3:15)