'Reverence and respect': Carrboro honors Black Lives Matter with two murals
By Sarah Gray Barr | January 24Residents and Town Council members hope the mural will keep the momentum of the movement going and bring the community together.
Residents and Town Council members hope the mural will keep the momentum of the movement going and bring the community together.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners met Monday night to pass a resolution on reparations, elect new members to the board and listen to public response over the proposed Buc-ee’s gas station on Interstate 85.
Chapel Hill second grader John Wortman is becoming a local celebrity with his homemade newscast, "John News."
The exhibit "Yesah: Journeys of the Occaneechi," opening at the Orange County Historical Museum on Friday, aims to bring awareness to the history of the Ocaneechi people in Hillsborough.
“(The first match) sets the tone and builds confidence. You get the chance to feel good about what you’re doing and try to do it again. When you lose a match, you try to figure out what went wrong. So, we’re trying to figure out what went right and keep doing that,” UNC volleyball head coach Joe Sagula said.
Ellianna Tickle, the sales manager at Underground Printing, said the store has held off on ordering new North Carolina apparel and has mainly just restocked its most popular items, since the future of fall sports remains uncertain.
While he was honored as a hall of fame inductee in a public match last October, Joe Sagula first found out he was to be inducted during a volleyball practice before the match. Surrounded by friends, faculty and players, it was a small but touching moment for Sagula's volleyball family.
“It was just the frustration and realization of why [the effigy] was up there,” Billy Cunningham said. “The feelings I had towards coach Smith, that this was so unfair and that goes for the whole team. We were all just so frustrated.”
Carolina Fever is a group that attends UNC sporting events to try and earn points for a coveted UNC men's basketball ticket. But in a world with no sports for the foreseeable future, they are trying to find ways to keep students engaged.
“Whether it's 10 years from now or 20 years from now, when they come back for a team reunion or are communicating with each other, this will always be the team that was G3."