Chapel Hill, NC – UNC System Interim President Bill Roper announced Wednesday that he expects to reopen the campuses for the 2020 Fall Semester. He issued the following statement regarding the plans for the Fall 2020 semester: “Recent data in…
Greensboro, NC – The 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament will return to Greensboro, North Carolina, with Greensboro Coliseum playing host to the event. The 2020 ACC Tournament in Greensboro was canceled after two days of play due to…
by Steve Murphy North Carolina – Over the past week, a lot has changed. For example, North Carolina has started to release death statistics and cases broken down by Congregate (nursing home, residential facility, prison) and Non-Congregate (general population). Also,…
by John Trump Concord, NC – Steve Pinkerton is a business owner who now does little business. He isn’t unique because of that, and he gets it. This pandemic and the ensuing shutdowns and lockdowns have taken much. Pinkerton owns…
Pittsboro, NC – North Carolina has received approval from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to begin a new Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) Program. This program will enable Chatham County families who have been impacted by school closings due…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – At an April 23 news conference, Gov. Roy Cooper gave a reasonable explanation of what led him to institute North Carolina’s statewide stay-at-home order nearly a month earlier. His secretary of health and human…
by Adam McCann As COVID-19 has continued to spread in the U.S., state governments ordered “non-essential” businesses to close their buildings. This has left business owners with a few options: let employees work from home, lay them off or furlough…
By Debbie Roos Pittsboro, NC – Early April is always a celebratory time in Chatham County because it marks the return of all three of our farmers’ markets! We are fortunate that the Thursday Pittsboro Farmers’ Market is open year-round,…
by Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – North Carolina lawmakers will consider a $688 million spending bill and a series of policy reforms, after money and policy draft bills passed the House Committee on COVID-19 Health Care Working Group Thursday, April…
Pittsboro, NC – North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has closed the state’s schools for students for the rest of the 2019-20 school year in order to limit the spread of COVID-19. As a result, Chatham County Schools will continue at-home…