The 2015 ACC Basketball Tournament will be played March 10-14 in the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The tournament will begin on Tuesday and will conclude with a primetime championship game on Saturday. All 13 games will be national…
Month: March 2015
2015 NCHSAA State Basketball Championship schedule
Here is the schedule for the 2015 NCHSAA basketball championships taking place on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Class 2A and 4 A games will take place at the Dean E. Smith Center. Class 1A and 3A games will take place a…
New substitution opportunity in high school soccer
Substitutions in high school soccer will now be permitted during a stoppage of play when bench personnel are cautioned or disqualified. This addition to the listing of substitution opportunities in Rule 3-3-3 was one of two rules changes recommended by…
NCDOT crews in Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and Scotland patching potholes
The cold, wet winter we have experienced in Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and Scotland counties means more potholes will be popping up over the coming months. N.C. Department of Transportation’s top priority is safety. That’s why NCDOT has its patching crews out in full force attacking potholes.
NCDOT crews in Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and Scotland patching potholes
The cold, wet winter we have experienced in Chatham, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and Scotland counties means more potholes will be popping up over the coming months. N.C. Department of Transportation’s top priority is safety. That’s why NCDOT has its patching crews out in full force attacking potholes.
Embattled Gene Nichol is coming to 2015 Chatham Democratic Convention
The 2015 Chatham County Democratic Convention will be held at Horton Middle School on Saturday, April 18. This year John Edwards’ former colleague Gene Nichol will be the guest speaker at the convention. The convention registration opens at 9 AM. There…
Chatham County Republican Party Convention will be held in Pittsboro on March 25
The 2015 Chatham County Republican Party Convention will be held Wednesday, March 25th at the Horton Middle School in Pittsboro. Registration will begin at 6 pm. Precinct meetings will begin at 6:30 pm and the county convention will start at 7:00 pm. P…
Gene Nichol’s center had no impact on poverty
It’s the height of ivory tower elitism for professors to defend the UNC Center on Work, Poverty and Opportunity. It’s the height of absurdity to analogize closing the center with the censorship of E.E. Ericson and John Spencer Bassett, as Rob Christensen did in his Feb. 22 column. Everyone knows the center on poverty was contrived to give John Edwards a platform for the core message of his 2008 presidential campaign. The center traded on the prestige of the university for personal political gain, not for poverty.
David Tennant, Ian Somerhalder, Tyler Hoechlin, Liam McIntyre among top celebrities scheduled to attend inaugural Wizard World Comic Con in Raleigh
Wizard World, Inc. continues its 2015 schedule with its first visit to the Raleigh Convention Center at Wizard World Comic Con Raleigh, March 13-15. David Tennant (“Doctor Who,” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire), Ian Somerhalder (“Vampire Diaries’), Karen Gillan (“Doctor Who,” Guardians of the Galaxy), Tyler Hoechlin (“Teen Wolf,” Road to Perdition), Liam McIntyre (“Spartacus: War of the Damned”), WWE® Diva Eva Marie™, John Schneider (“The Dukes of Hazzard,” “Smallville”) and “The Walking Dead” stars Sonequa Martin-Green and Sarah Wayne Callies headline the roster of celebrity guests scheduled to attend the pop culture extravaganza.