Day: January 5, 2022

Chatham County arrest blotter: December 2021

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Pittsboro, NC – Here is the Chatham County Sheriff department’s arrest blotter for December 2021. On December 1, Randall James Fesel, 26, of 488 NC Highway 87, Pittsboro, was arrested by Cpl. David Nixon for obtaining property under false pretense.…

School closures were too risky

By John Hood Raleigh, NC – When the news broke on January 3 that one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Cumberland County, was considering a shift to virtual instruction in response to rising case counts of the Omicron variant,…

What’s Going On, What’s Going On

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By Kevin Roche Love to see what the incandescent Marvin Gaye would make of these times.  We are hitting a new fever pitch of tension and craziness.  Schools are doing virtual or remote “learning”; parents are at their wit’s end on…