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It's poppin': Farmers' market returns to downtown Chapel Hill

By Janna Childers | August 22

The Chapel Hill Farmers’ Market will return to downtown Chapel Hill for its second season in an effort to provide local produce and food accessibility ...

Restaurants and breweries prepare for students' arrival

By Lindsey Hoover | August 22

First-years aren’t the only newcomers on campus this year — many new restaurants and breweries have come to the Chapel Hill area to get a taste of ...

Chandler Kania leaves his pre-trial hearing at the Orange County Courthouse on Aug. 16.

Chandler Kania's defense attorneys move to keep iPhone evidence out of court

By Sara Kiley Watson | August 16

Former UNC student Chandler Kania's pre-trial hearing in Orange County Courthouse Tuesday centered around his iPhone. Authorities say Kania was ...

Vigil held to mourn victims of crash one year later

By Zoe Schaver | July 20

On the one-year anniversary of her mother's death, DeSeante Jones continues to mourn the woman she had looked forward to sharing her life with.

Guests examine information about James Taylor's childhood kitchen as a part of the tour of the recently auctioned home.

James Taylor's childhood home in Chapel Hill sold at auction

By Sara Kiley Watson | July 14

The sprawling expanse of the home, nestled in greenery and stretching over 23 scenic, wooded acres, lies only one and a half miles from UNC's campus. ...

Dr. Bill Ferris, a UNC Professor of the American South, will be giving a TED Talk in Durham, along with UNC's Dr. Flavio Frohlich and many other speakers on July 9th at the Carolina Theatre.

Target coming to Franklin Street in 2017

By Zoe Schaver | July 7

A cheap grocery shopping option, long missing from Chapel Hill's central downtown, could be open for business as soon as summer 2017.

Carrboro’s Vinyl Perk will be moving to a new location after its lease ended on June 30. Owner Jay Reeves plans to keep the small business in the area (Courtesy of Jay Reeves).

Vinyl Perk leaves Rosemary location

By Zoe Schaver | July 7

The nearly 5,000 vinyl records stored at Vinyl Perk, Carrboro’s quirky combination record store and coffee shop, have been carefully filed away into ...

(Far left) Hargraves Community Center counselor Jazmine Mason-Carter brainstorms safety ideas with other trainees.

Training targets child sexual assault

By Zoe Schaver | July 7

Ninety percent of children who are sexually abused know their abuser personally.

Carrboro becomes living wage certified

By Sara Kiley Watson | June 30

Part-time employees of the Town of Carrboro are about to get a big raise.

The Chapel Hill Public Library received a grant to design a pop-up library that will debut in the summer of 2017.

Chapel Hill Public Library grant to fund mobile pop-up library

By Zoe Schaver | June 30

Library services in Chapel Hill are about to go mobile. Thanks to a nearly $100,000 federal grant, the Chapel Hill Public Library will debut a pop-up ...

Carrboro celebrates pollinator populations

By Zoe Schaver | June 23

As populations of honeybees continue to decline nationwide, Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle has declared June 19 through June 26 Carrboro Pollinator Week. ...

Farmers' market pilots free compost program

By Sara Kiley Watson | June 16

Carrboro residents who might want to compost leftovers from their homes but are unsure how to go about it will soon have a free and easy solution.

The Jane Austen Summer Program will hold the fourth annual Regency Ball in Gerard Hall on June 18 to celebrate Austen’s legacy (courtesy of Jane Austen Summer Program).

Austen celebrated at symposium

By Alexandra Blazevich | June 16

Jane Austin’s legacy lives on in this summer’s Jane Austen Summer Program, “Mansfield Park & Its Afterlives.”

Emilio Vicente (right) Winston Crisp (guy in suit) Mark Kleinschmidt Lydia Lavelle

Vigils honored victims of the Orlando shooting

By Zoe Schaver | June 15

Rainbow flags flew and contemplative words were spoken — both in Spanish and in English — across Chapel Hill this week as communities gathered to ...

Alejandra, a 15-year-old Freshman at Chapel Hill High School, was suspended for defending herself during an assault by another female student at school, on April 22nd. Reports filed with the school and police department by her parents are incomplete and the communication between the three entities has been unproductive.

Chapel Hill High School first-year Alejandra was suspended for defending herself during an assault at school.

An incident at Chapel Hill High prompts NAACP involvement

By Taylor Baisey and Zoe Schaver | June 1

An incident at Chapel Hill High School has raised questions about how schools approach discipline for assaults and other violent behavior — especially ...

Total county homelessness count may be misleading

By Luke Bollinger | June 1

The most recent count of those experiencing homelessness in Orange County suggests that homelessness has decreased — but officials say this count could ...

Orange County Register of Deeds traces Chapel Hill's origins

By Ryan Haar | May 25

It's not the classic landmarks of Chapel Hill — the Carolina Inn, Franklin Street, the Chapel Hill Cemetery — that fascinate Orange County Register ...

The Rosemary Street Public Improvement Project prepares for making a safer, nicer appearance.

Construction to improve Rosemary Street delayed

By Luke Bollinger | May 25

Delays in acquiring public easements have pushed construction for the Rosemary Street Improvement Project later than its initial start date of May 16. ...

County budget in progress

By Zoe Schaver | May 18

The county manager’s recommended Orange County budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 prioritizes affordable housing, transit and a livable wage for county ...

The ArtsCenter hangs signs in the bathrooms stating “#WeAreNotThis” in opposition to H.B. 2 (courtesy of Patrick Phelps-Mckeown).

ArtsCenter Condemns HB2, Governor McCrory

By Jenni Ciesielski | May 11

On May 4, Carrboro’s ArtsCenter released a public statement expressing its opposition to House Bill 2.