Maggie Sauer, the director of the NCDHHS Office of Rural Health, said the office was the first of its kind in the nation.
“The awards were monetary and they go to supporting the community, use it to host various community support the community,” Dana Crews, the director of Family Success Alliance. “We use it for educational materials to support the tutoring program that New Hope Elementary uses.”
The voter registration deadline for the Nov. 7 municipal elections is Oct. 13 at 5 p.m. Early voter registration in Chapel Hill and Carrboro is from Oct. 26 to Nov. 4.
“This year, we felt with the really staggering rise in book bans and especially with the book bans targeting books about race or about gender identity, we felt like we should do something more active, so we began the idea of a postcard-writing campaign,” Hannah Olson, the Chapel Hill Public Library's marketing and communications coordinator, said.
Commissioned in 1942, the University's pre-flight school trained roughly 20,000 cadets. Parker Huitt — the grandson of U.S. Navy cadet Powell Huitt, who attended UNC's pre-flight school — said he requested the Chapel Hill highway marker because he wanted to make sure the stories of those who attended the pre-flight school do not fade into obscurity.
