By Chatham Journal staff Pittsboro, NC – Pittsboro commissioners will consider advancing a new Town Hall project carrying an estimated total cost of $12.63 million, appropriating $38,000 for a Downtown Master Plan and parking study, and coordinating three major economic-development…
Chapel Hill, NC – Bill Belichick arrived at his weekly news conference prepared to discuss East Tennessee State. Instead, the North Carolina football coach spent some of the session confronting questions that reach far beyond Saturday’s home opener: the resignation…
Pittsboro, NC – 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of 9/11. A quarter century after the September 11, 2001 attacks, 100 million Americans are too young to remember the day that changed our city, nation, and world forever. It is our…
By The Tobacco Road Scribe Durham, NC – Duke did not unveil its new season with an offensive spectacle Saturday evening. It offered something more elemental and, perhaps, more revealing. The Blue Devils handed the football to Nate Sheppard, controlled…
Pittsboro, NC – Chris Ehrenfeld, owner and CEO of BOLD Companies, has acquired Chatham Mills in Pittsboro. The acquisition marks a new chapter for the historic Pittsboro property, which has become a well-known destination for local businesses, dining, events and…
By Gene Galin Pittsboro, NC – Barely two months into his tenure as superintendent, Dr. Kelly Batten used a September 3 conversation with Chatham County Chamber of Comnmerce president Rebecca Dickerson to make a case for both continuity and change:…
Pittsboro, NC – Chatham County Schools students continue to outperform their peers statewide, according to the 2025–2026 North Carolina accountability results, with the district exceeding state averages in both academic proficiency and graduation rates while schools across Chatham County demonstrated…
By Chatham Journal staff Pittsboro, NC – The Chatham County Planning Board recommended approval of a 107-lot subdivision near the Haw River on September 2, 2025, after a lengthy dispute over a private section of Rock Rest Road, conservation easements,…
By Donna King Raleigh, NC – orth Carolinians are not immune to what has become near hysteria over the growth of data centers and their role in the modern economy. Just one year ago, a Heatmap Pro/Embold Research poll found…