The tall Haitian man, who looked to be in his 20s, wore a flash drive around his neck. In the months following the earthquake that devastated the Haitian population one year ago today, the flash drive held the only memories the man had left of those he had lost.
It’s a late night on Asgard Farm. In the dark, turkeys roost in the fields and Allison Aday, owner of the multi-species sustainable farm in Gibsonville, enters the pasture. “We generally go out in the evening,” Aday said. “They don’t run away because it’s too dark to see anything.”
The Chapel Hill Planning Board expressed concerns regarding the specificity of guidelines for shelter development at Tuesday night’s meeting. Planning board member George Cianciolo said the guidelines presented by the board’s shelter subcommittee should ensure that residents’ fears and concerns are recognized.
The man dubbed the “Repeat Robber” of banks by the FBI was arrested Monday and charged with five counts of common law robbery, according to a Raleigh Police Department news release. Raleigh and Durham police arrested Lee Bennett Pope III, 37, on an outstanding violation warrant in a shopping center parking lot in Durham before Raleigh detectives assumed custody and transported him to Raleigh, the news release states.
Though a property plan presented to the Orange County Board of Commissioners focuses on potential land acquisition projects, commissioners said the county should concentrate on making the property it already owns more accessible.
Investigators are looking into the robberies of two Orange County banks, and officials say it is too early to tell if they are related. Around noon Tuesday, a white man in his late 40s or early 50s entered the CommunityOne Bank at 102 Millstone Drive in Hillsborough and robbed it in front of five or six witnesses, said Hillsborough’s Interim Police Chief Davis Trimmer. “He walked up to the tellers and told them this was a robbery,” he said.
Sylvia Buchholz and Seymoure Freed walked into Trilussa La Trattoria in search of a special dish to celebrate Buchholz’s birthday: paella.After searching the menu, they were disappointed to find that the European seafood dish was not offered.
At the last of three community meetings to discuss moving the men’s homeless shelter, students came to lend their support for the relocation.Conversations have been dominated by those who would be neighbors of the new shelter, who express safety concerns.
A customer approached the counter at Starbucks and showed her engagement ring to the woman at the cash register. The response was an exclamation, a rush around the counter and a hug.That’s just normal human relations for Stefany Picquet, who works at the Starbucks on East Franklin Street.
UNC students haven’t had a reason to rush Franklin Street or buy much memorabilia this basketball season.But with the possibility of winning the National Invitation Tournament on Thursday, they might get their shot.The Chapel Hill Police Department said it is expecting a storm of students and has already made plans to place officers downtown and to close Franklin Street.
