by Shannon Culpepper Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County Solid Waste & Recycling will have mulch sales for the month of June on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Sales will take place on the following dates: Wednesdays – June 17, and 24 Saturdays…
Siler City, NC – Nine Jordan-Matthews High School artists received awards on May 28 during an annual ceremony highlighting outstanding student musicians, actors and visual artists. Awards are usually announced as part of JM Awards Night, an annual presentation highlighting…
by Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – ACE Speedway must shut down all races. The Alamance County race track lost the first round of its lawsuit to overturn Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive orders barring most mass gatherings. Alamance County Senior Resident…
Raleigh, NC – As more drivers get back on the road amidst COVID-19, wearing seat belts are and have been the primary means for saving lives behind the wheel. In an effort to reinforce and encourage seat belt usage, the…
by John Trump Raleigh, NC – A bill reopening gyms and bars and expanding seating in restaurants has cleared the General Assembly. Again. The N.C. House on Wednesday, June 10, voted, 69-50, to send a rewritten House Bill 594 to…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – While announcing a cumbersome set of guidelines for schools to reopen in August, Gov. Roy Cooper pointedly made no promises about whether he will, in fact, allow North Carolina’s schools to open at all.…
by Gene Galin Are Chatham County residents staying at home and practicing social distancing? For an answer we check in with the University of Maryland, which has been maintaining a COVID-19 Impact Analysis Platform page. For the period between May…
by Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – ACE Speedway isn’t the only racetrack defying Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive orders against mass gatherings. In rural Stokes County, 311 Speedway owner Mike Fulp is planning a protest with several hundred people, live music,…
by Amy Cooke Raleigh, NC – In America 2020, protests and hashtags have replaced public policy debate and deliberative process. Giving into protesters demands to #DefundThePolice, the Minneapolis City Council pledged to “dismantle” the city’s police department. A note of…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham Park, a Live, Work, Play, Learn community in Pittsboro, has donated 17 acres of land to Raleigh-based Thales Academy, making it the first school in Chatham Park. Located in the Vineyards neighborhood of Chatham Park, Thales…