Local 506 got a makeover.
After three days of construction and renovations, the music venue, located at 506 W. Franklin St., painted its showroom, renovated its bar and redid the entire facade.
“We upgraded the sound and did some painting and lighting,” said Local 506’s owner Kippy Perkins.
“We opened up the front to make it more inviting, we renovated the bar because we want people to come in for different events other than the music.”
Despite the renovations, Perkins said the feeling of Local 506 hasn’t changed.
“We decided to renovate to give it a little face-lift, but we kept the same vibe that it had,” Perkins said.
And Perkins said she hopes Local 506 will be a destination people can come to whenever the doors are open.
“When people realize that we are open for more than late night music, I think they might wander in more,” Perkins said.
Campus Calzones comes to Franklin Street
When long-time friend Bill Boylan asked Skip King if he wanted to drop his delivery job and join the Campus Calzones team in Greenville, he said absolutely yes.
Now three years later, King will be leading the expansion of Campus Calzones to Franklin Street with partner Matt Boylan in the building formerly owned by Pita Pit at 115 E. Franklin St.
To get the day's news and headlines in your inbox each morning, sign up for our email newsletters.
King said they chose to specialize in calzones because nobody else has focused on it.
“We think the calzone has its own little niche,” King said.
Campus Calzones wanted to come to Chapel Hill four years ago but didn’t have a good location.
“They say in the restaurant business, ‘Location, location, location,’ and Franklin Street is a great location,” King said.
Matt Boylan said they are still waiting on construction permits to begin building inside the store, but he hopes that they will open by mid-August.
Library’s financial literacy series returns
The Orange County Public Library will promote a different kind of literacy this summer — financial literacy.
The library will be offering its second financial literacy series and will focus on AARP for those age 50 and up. The series is open to all ages.
Anne Pusey, the head of Adult and Teen Services and media contact for the program, said it comes from a partnership with the Compass Center for Women and Families.
The new program will cover topics from financial assessments to budgeting and is split into three workshops on the third Thursday of every month from July until September.
The Orange County Public Library hosted its first financial literacy program last spring.
“It was intended to be a one-time thing and we saw interest building and saw that there’s definitely a need out there, so we decided to bring it back for the summer,” Pusey said.
