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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education Sees One Incumbent Reelected, Two Others Ousted
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education will be filled with some new faces next year. With four seats on the board up for elections this cycle, and a crowded field of 14 candidates, the only incumbent to win reelection was former board chair Rani Dasi. Newcomers Barbara Fedders, Meredith Ballew, and Vickie Feaster Fornville also won the most votes, ousting incumbents Deon Temne and Ashton Powell, in an election that saw about 26 percent voter turnout.
Chapel Hill’s “Moving Forward” Slate Wins Mayor and Town Council Races
When Chapel Hill candidates Jess Anderson, Melissa McCullough, and Theodore Nollert hugged each other on Franklin Street on Election Night, they kept repeating one magic word:. Anderson won about 60 percent of the vote for mayor, besting competitor Adam Searing’s 40 percent. In a race for four open town...
Welcome to the INDY’s 2023 Local Elections Live Blog
10:23 p.m.: Wake County results are still outstanding, but we will update them here and in our Daily newsletter tomorrow morning. Check the website for more post-election coverage. That’s a wrap on our live blog for tonight! Thanks for following the election results along with us. 10:16 p.m.: With...
Snapshots From Election Week: As Voters Are Undecided, Chapel Hill Town Council and Mayoral Candidates Pound the Pavements and Hit the Early Voting Sites
On Halloween night, Chapel Hill residents opened their doors to some of the usual characters—ghosts, princesses, dinosaurs in costume. But to undecided voters, some door-knockers may have been even spookier than the usual mash of monsters. “You don’t look like a trick-or-treater,” said one woman, gripping a pumpkin-shaped bucket...
Durham Protesters Block Traffic During Demonstration in Support of Palestine
On Thursday, hundreds of protesters, many of them Jewish, called for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas that has escalated into a catastrophic humanitarian crisis. A demonstration that started in downtown Durham intensified as a portion of the group sat down in the middle of the freeway...
15 Minutes: Khalisa Rae
Khalisa Rae is a writer, activist, and the founder of the Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers, which will take place in Durham on November 7-10. INDY: Tell me about the name Griot & Grey Owl. KHALISA RAE: The name griot is an ancient term for storyteller. It was...
This Week, Thousands of Demonstrators Turned Out in Raleigh to Demand a Ceasefire
Women in traditional hijabs and abayas march up Wilmington Street, leading children by the hand. Palestinian flags wave in the breeze, flashes of bright red and green peeking through the crowd. A young woman, hoarse from shouting, leads chants through a loudspeaker: “The people demand ceasefire now!”. At protests...
Residents of Fuquay-Varina and Holly Springs Hope to Elect Progressive Leaders to Town Board of Commissioners, Council
For Jovita Simons, Fuquay-Varina is a place she’s been connected to her whole life. Simons grew up visiting her grandparents in town and she’s a resident of more than 20 years, living in a home right behind where her grandmother’s house once stood. She’s seen Fuquay grow from the small town it used to be to a more booming one with a population of nearly 44,000.
From Slavery to Freedom Symposium: Why Historian John Hope Franklin’s Work Remains Essential Today
This story originally published online at Duke Today and is republished here with permission. Videography by Ayanna Shepherd. Photos by Bill Snead. The opening day of the symposium celebrating the landmark work, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans,” by celebrated historian and Duke faculty emeritus John Hope Franklin, was held, aptly enough, on the campus of North Carolina Central University.
Durham and Open Table Ministry Will Rent Ten Rooms At Local Hotel to Residents Experiencing Homelessness This Winter
In recent years, Durham’s s rents and its homeless population have risen in tandem. As temperatures drop, people living out of their cars and on the streets are at risk of freezing to death. Durham faces a chilling statistic: 50 of the city’s families have self reported as unsheltered homeless.
Advocates Question Whether NC DOT, City of Durham Share Values After Agency Nixes Fayetteville Street Improvement Project
Drive down any major road in Durham and there’s a chance you’re riding on a highway in disguise. Erwin Road, Roxboro Street, Alston Avenue, Fayetteville Street, Duke Street, Chapel Hill Road, University Drive, Durham–Chapel Hill Boulevard, Holloway Street, Geer Street, Cornwallis Road, Hillandale Road, Hillsborough Road: a huge chunk of Durham’s roadways are owned and maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NC DOT). NC DOT is responsible for more than 81,000 miles of roads statewide; only Texas’s transportation department maintains more miles of roads than North Carolina’s. Any changes to those roads are subject to NC DOT review before the city can consider adoption.
The “Total Sincerity” of Durham Comic Artist Jenny Zervakis
John Porcellino still remembers his first encounter with a Jenny Zervakis comic. “It must have been 1991, when Jenny sent me the first Strange Growths,” he says, eyes glazing over as he reconstructs the scene. “I had my stack of mail, and I was leaning on the doorway flipping through it. I opened up the envelope with her zine in it and just read the whole thing cover to cover.”
Trials and Errors: Why do Wake County Prosecutors Seem Intent on Pinning a Series of Air Gun Shootings on a Holly Springs Man?
In a windowless courtroom on the seventh floor of the Wake County Justice Center, assistant district attorney Casey Young is pointing her finger at Henderson Atwater. “It appears that he has a round head,” Young says. “It appears that he does not have any hair.”. There’s a silence....
Hammer No More the Fingers Is Having Fun Again
The most striking thing about Hammer No More the Fingers, which is back with a new record for the first time in 11 years, is how little the band has changed. The Durham trio of Duncan Webster, Joe Hall, and Jeff Stickley is still defined by colorfully muscular guitar and bass and lithe drumming that wind around each other with a deft and energetic chemistry that could only come from musicians who have a close bond as both friends and collaborators. Their music still exists somewhere in the ether between fist-pumping radio rock, digested by fans of such titans as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters, and cerebral indie rock complexities, befitting a band that originally emerged, back in 2007 with a self-titled EP, just as Triangle luminaries like Superchunk and Polvo were returning after their own long absences.
Most Wake County Towns Have Elections This Month. Campaign Talking Points Center Around How to Grow.
In Wake Forest, a growing town on the outskirts of Wake County, Judith Blaine isn’t happy with the way her community is changing. “There’s a lot of construction going on and a lot of houses being built and a lot of traffic developing as a result of that,” Blaine says. “Some of that is a real issue to lots of people that live here.”
Backtalk: ‘It could have been lifted verbatim from any email sent by the Triangle Blogblog, a notoriously vituperative group…’
In our October 18 paper, we published a deep dive by Chase Pellegrini de Paur into the world of Chapel Hill politics and the dynamics driving the upcoming municipal election next week. We also published our endorsements for Chapel Hill mayor and town council, Carrboro mayor and town council, and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board (we’re republishing those endorsements again this week, along with our endorsements in Durham’s municipal election, beginning on page 17).
Years After America’s Got Talent, Kaitlyn Maher Takes Stock of the Extraordinary Childhood She’s Leaving Behind
I don’t remember much from when I was four years old. My résumé was very thin back then. But Kaitlyn Maher’s memory and CV both begin at four. It’s 2008, and a host is handing her a microphone. He tells her to go to the X marked on the stage, and she runs into the floodlights, her pink bows flouncing. Fifteen years later, she can still see it all so clearly.
Maple Stave’s New Album Transforms Melancholy Into Cathartic Expulsions
Among the more satisfying aspects of writing about music on the local level is being around for the scrappy bands that keep coming back and getting a little better, every time. Maple Stave is one such band. The Durham oddity emerged as a math-y instro-punk trio in the mid-aughts, powered...
The Dorrance Family Are Quick On Their Feet
When people find out that Michelle Dorrance, one of the most influential and sought-after tap dancers and choreographers in the world, is the daughter of famed UNC-Chapel Hill women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance, it usually doesn’t take long for them to suggest that she might’ve inherited the fast footwork from her father.
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