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Lydia Lavelle

Carrboro Town Council member Damon Seils announces he is running for mayor

By Kelli Rainer | June 8

Seils said he hopes to build on Carrboro's progressive reputation and on the Town's role as a statewide leader on issues regarding the LGBTQ+ community, ...

Chapel Hill and Carrboro collaborate to host Small Town Pride events throughout June

By Kelli Rainer | June 3

Carrboro's Mayor Lavelle announces she will leave office at the end of her current term

By Kelli Rainer | May 27

Put a poem in your pocket: Town of Carrboro celebrates April as poetry month

By Jane Wilson | April 15

Lydia Lavelle is the current mayor of Carrboro. Lavelle was elected as an alderman in 2007. She became the mayor in November 2013. Her term is set to expire in December 2015.

Lavelle earned a Masters of Recreation Resources from North Carolina State University and worked for a few years in parks and recreation administration. In 1993 she earned a law degree from North Carolina Central University. She is currently an assistant professor, teaching law at NCCU.

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Carrboro holds annual Frederick Douglass speech reading virtually

By Taylor Heeden | July 6

“Before this moment of America’s reckoning with race, the warm, sweet air was already charged,” Associate N.C. Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls ...

Lydia Lavelle running for re-election, looking to complete unfinished business

By Brent Van Vliet | April 23

Lydia Lavelle, mayor of Carrboro announced on April 17 that she will run for re-election hoping to continue working on her visions and goals for the town. ...

Alderman Bethany Chaney isn't seeking reelection, but her work in Carrboro isn't over

April 2

Bethany Chaney, a member of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, announced that she will not be seeking reelection at the end of 2019, but wants to remind ...

Here's how you can help Chapel Hill win the water conservation challenge

By Michael Meeks | March 31

Chapel Hill and Carrboro engage in friendly competition to conserve water, and you can get involved.

Chapel Hill and Carrboro mayors speak out against ICE raids in N.C.

By Ares Zerunyan | February 14

Approximately 200 people were arrested in North Carolina last week during raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The ArtsCenter pulled out of the 203 Project. Here's what that means for Orange County:

By Samantha Perry | January 23

The facility will still house the public library, Carrboro Recreation and Parks offices, Teen Center, Virtual Justice Center and local radio station WCOM. ...

Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle appointed to N.C. Commission on Inclusion

By Marin Wolf | July 25

After bringing gender-neutral bathrooms and statements of inclusion to Carrboro, here's what the Mayor is doing now.

Mayor Lavelle and other Carrboro officials address participants of the Pride Piper Walk on Carrboro's role in LGBT history.

Rainbow flags all around: Carrboro Pride Walk honors LGBT pioneer Joe Herzenberg

By Marin Wolf | June 5

Carrboro has long been a leader in supporting LGBT rights. The town elected North Carolina’s first openly-gay mayor in 1995 and voted to create domestic-partner ...

Carrboro mayor Lydia Lavelle gets the ball rolling on her election campaign

By Sophia Wilhelm | September 10

Carrboro mayor Lydia Lavelle kicked off her election campaign at Steel String Brewery last Friday evening with mingling, munchies, and stickers. ...

Deborah Buter, Wilmington Attorney, talks about her stance on HB2 at the LGBTQ Panel Friday evening.

NC's openly LGBTQ political figures talk representation in government and HB2's partial repeal

By Nic Rardin | April 9

Political figures in the North Carolina LGBTQ community met on campus Friday to discuss LGBTQ representation in government and the newly passed House ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke in the Greensboro Coliseum on Tuesday, June 14, 2017.

Local leaders issue responses to Trump's immigration ban

By Samantha Scott | February 2

As of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order, immigrants from seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — were ...

Alicia Stemper, right, and Lydia Lavelle became domestic partners in 2011. Photo courtesy of Avery Stemper.

LGBTQ elected officials send open letter to President-elect Donald Trump

By Samantha Scott | January 18

Two elected officials in Carrboro joined more than 150 other LGBTQ officials across the U.S. in sending a letter to President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, ...

Chelsea Clinton visited Wake Forest University and Carrboro to kick off voter registration and to discuss North Carolina education plans. Photo courtesy of Sydney Feinglass.

Chelsea Clinton visits North Carolina, discusses college affordability

By Kelsey Mason | September 15

With four high-profile appearances this week — one at Wake Forest University Tuesday, and another in Carrboro Wednesday — Chelsea Clinton is making ...

The UNC women's golf team participated in the Ruth's Chris Tar Heel Invitational at Finley Golf Course all weekend long.

Mayors mix it up for Orange County Rape Crisis Center fundraiser

By Brooke Fisher | October 11

Mayors Mark Kleinschmidt and Lydia Lavelle tried their hands at bartending to raise money for the Orange County Rape Crisis Center.

One year later, LGBT community still on road to equality

By Grant Masini | October 8

For one Carrboro woman, life finally feels normal.

Carrboro mayor Lydia Lavelle calls for national inclusivity

By Corey Risinger | January 22

Weddings are large and small, home and away, but few couples can say their ceremony was an open, town-wide event.