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Local business leaders and community officials held their annual Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce Meeting Thursday morning. UNC System Body President Margaret Spellings spoke at the meeting.

Margaret Spellings discusses higher education at Chamber of Commerce meeting

By Maddy Arrowood | February 3

Business leaders and elected officials of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community reflected on the past year’s accomplishments at the annual Chamber of Commerce ...

Chapel Hill Comics will be permanently closing its doors at the end of March

Chapel Hill Comics will say goodbye to Franklin in March

By Molly Horak | February 3

For Ryan Kulikowski, it all began when he picked up a copy of a Kingdom Come comic book.

Jeff Polish is the founder of and executive director of the Monti. Photo Courtesy of Jeff Polish.

Hippo Awards will honor storytellers Saturday

By Carrie Polen | February 3

The Monti, a Triangle-based storytelling organization, is hosting its 9th Annual Hippo Awards to honor its top contributors from 2016. The event is set ...

The last town meeting agenda featured a climate plan.

Carrboro set to present final version of climate action plan next week

By Kaia Findlay | February 3

The town of Carrboro will present its finalized version of the Community Climate Action Plan next week in an effort to reduce the town’s greenhouse ...

Walter Salinger, a retired professor of psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, currently serves on the Boards of Directors of both the League of Women Voters of Piedmont Triad and the League of Women Voters of North Carolina. On the evening of February 2nd, he gave a talk at the Chapel Hill Public Library to explain the consequences of gerrymandering voting districts and advocate for a nonpartisan redistricting plan.

League of Women Voters and Chapel Hill community members discussed gerrymandering in N.C.

By Sophia Wilhelm | February 2

Earlier this year, a U.S. District Court ruled that North Carolina's districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered in regards to race.

La Residence reopens Wednesday after being damaged in a fire.

La Residence achieves full ‘La Resurrection’ tonight after months of construction

By Hannah Wall | February 2

At 5:30 p.m. today, La Residence will be open for dinner after months of construction due to a fire that occurred in June 2016.

City leaders and law enforcement discuss immigration at a forum in the Union on Wednesday night.

Panelists discuss immigrant rights and law at community forum

By Cy Neff | February 2

The Town of Chapel Hill and Carolina Student Legal Services held a forum on Wednesday night to discuss immigration and its potential effects on at-risk ...

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 ...

Construction of Carolina Square, a mix of apartment buildings and retail and office spaces, should be completed before the start of fall semester.

Carolina Square construction causes lane closure on Franklin Street

By Ashton Eleazer | February 1

Carolina Square construction will cause a lane closure on Franklin Street from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays for about a month beginning Friday.

Ephesus Elementary kicks off Black History Month celebrations

By Lauren Talley | February 1

Ephesus Elementary School in Chapel Hill will celebrate Black History Month in February by engaging students in an array of activities and projects.

The Town of Chapel Hill and the Downtown Partnership are working on a new program to provide better parking for workers on Franklin St.

Upcoming program will help employees find parking spots in Chapel Hill

By Isabela Zawistowska | February 1

An expansion of the employee parking permit program is underway in downtown Chapel Hill to make parking easier for employees who work late shifts at restaurants ...

All Up In Your Business: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools raises living wage rate

By Gregory Hall | February 1

The living wage rate, which is the minimum wage that Chapel-Hill Carrboro City Schools pays their full-time employees, has been proposed to increase to ...

All Up In Your Business: Living Kitchen Restaurant to open Feb. 9

By Gregory Hall | February 1

Living Kitchen, a plant based and raw restaurant, is set to open at 201 S Elliot Road next to the Whole Foods in Chapel Hill on Feb 9.

All Up In Your Business: Chapel Hill Comics will close in March

By Gregory Hall | February 1

Dating back to the eighties and nineties (called Chapel Hill Comics for just over 10 years), it is the oldest specialty comic book store in the Triangle ...

Mayor of Chapel Hill, Pam Hemminger and Mayor of Carrboro, Lydia Lavelle lead a walk around the neighborhood at the good neighbor block party at Hargraves Community Center on Tuesday evening.

Northside expected to receive affordable housing as part of Habitat for Humanity partnership

By Doug Dubrowski | February 1

The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership and Habitat for Humanity of Orange County are working together in the coming months to construct affordable housing ...

Immigration law forum will be held Wednesday in the Carolina Union auditorium

By Hannah Wall | January 30

In response to growing concerns about immigration under President Donald Trump's administration, an immigration law forum will be held Wednesday from ...

Rex Mercer, left, is a social worker at IFC, the Inter-Faith Council, helping to provide temporary places of residence for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Corey Root, center, is the Homeless Program coordinator for Orange County. Behind her is a wall covered in different cases of people she plans to enter into the system. Mike Alston, right, was previously homeless and now works as a dishwasher at Pizzeria Mercato.

'Their home until they find something better': Housing Orange County's homeless

By Eric Schwartz | January 30

Corey Root found the American dream overseas.

The scaffolding in front of CVS on Franklin St. has been mostly taken down.

Franklin Street's CVS building has a new, modern exterior

By Ismail Conze | January 30

The scaffolding on the front of 137 E. Franklin St., which contains CVS, has finally come down and a shiny new exterior for the building has taken its ...

Sharanya Thiru, a volunteer worker, helps Craige Griffon fill out a survey.

Annual count gives insight into demographics of community experiencing homelessness

By Olivia Schaber | January 30

Every January, groups of community members in Orange County gather one night to conduct the Point-in-Time count – a federally-mandated count of every ...

The immigration protest took place at the post office on Franklin St.

Franklin Street crowd protests Trump's executive order on immigration

By Erik Beene | January 30

More than 100 people gathered outside the post office on Franklin Street Sunday to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order barring residents ...