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Neighbors to city council: “Urgent need to correct the zoning”

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- Neighbors point out the developer’s proposal is based on the wrong plan from decades ago, highlight the increased flooding on the Eno River. - Developer and partners: Environmental impacts have "no relation to the issues presented" and invoke memories of Margaret Nygard. - Black Meadow Ridge, West Point and water quality. "I am here to impress upon you the urgent need to correct the...

March 11, 2021

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March 30, 2021

Opinion: West Point is for all of Durham

When I think back on my experiences of West Point, it has always felt country, a drive away from...

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January 22, 2021

Blog post: Impeachment articles have been filed against Joe Biden. What happened in...

One day after Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, he is getting impeached....

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December 10, 2020

The music of the Ciompi Quartet

On a recent bright winter day, the members of the Ciompi Quartet gathered at Duke University to play. Inside...

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November 9, 2020

Blog post: A look back at Bush-Gore

It’s hard to say who Americans wanted in the White House in the year 2000, Bush or Gore? On...

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Lucia Micarelli’s performance of “Kashmir”

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If you can, wait until night to watch this video. This is not just another classical music concert. A violinist plays barefoot, wild yet controlled just enough. Her sound...

February 18, 2020

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Pauli Murray’s love poetry

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Murray's poems on history and politics are passionate and sweeping. But her love poems are more quiet, although still sensual and earthy. Here are six of Pauli Murray's love...

February 17, 2020

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Here are 7 movie scenes of love and romance (Spoilers)

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The English Patient (1996): “Cathedral paintings” One of the most romantic scenes in cinema. Hana (Juliette Binoche), a vibrant and capable nurse who takes care of the titular...

February 15, 2020

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Let’s eat! “A Bite of China,” bubble teas, and Ina Garten’s lemon bars

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Let’s eat! “A Bite of China” was originally posted in July. Here, I’m updating it with some writing on bubble teas and Ina Garten’s lemon bars. Enjoy! “A Bite...

February 7, 2020

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Memories of the Odd Fellows tract from Ron Sutherland. Photos by the Ghost of Odd Fellows

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Ron Sutherland, chief scientist with the Wildlands Network who led the successful activist efforts to save the 79,000-acre Hoffmann Forest in 2015, recalls what the Odd Fellows tract looked like in the ’80s, when he was a Boy Scout roaming through the woods and playing capture the flag. I asked Dr. Sutherland what he remembered, and his memories came out uninterrupted and still very clear from more than 30 years ago. Here are his comments. The photos are by the anonymous “Ghost of Odd Fellows.” The full portfolios of the photos can be seen here and here. It was the place to go in camp for our Boy Scout troop. We didn’t need to do much. We could just go out there on pretty short notice and go out and camp. It was kind of a home away from home for the Boy Scouts. It took all of ten minutes to get there. We didn’t feel like we were in a small, tightly regulated state park. It felt like it was the woods that...

Seafood in the summer

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By Matt Goad A door slams shut behind a satisfied customer and another door opens with a new customer not far behind. This happens all day long, three days a week in the small, cinder-block shack that houses Tom Robinson’s Carolina Seafood of Carrboro. With a small staff, the business manages to get to the North Carolina coast every Wednesday to get fish and...

July 28, 2020

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Photo gallery: Scenes in downtown Chapel Hill

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UNC students working on Franklin Street. The margaritas at Bandido’s. Murals in hidden places. The photos covering the walls of Sutton’s Drug Store. Some things have not changed in downtown Chapel Hill. Long-time photographer Karen Tam, who has worked for The News & Observer and The Raleigh Times, and freelanced for The Associated Press, spent a recent Friday afternoon capturing the goings-on. See the...

July 24, 2020

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What are Chapel Hill’s plans for downtown?

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On a recent afternoon, Antoni Sustaita, owner of Bandido’s Mexican Café on Franklin Street, opens the makeshift takeout window. The awning and lights over Amber Alley have been removed, and the ground is still wet from rain. At the alley’s back entrance sits heavy machinery for the construction of a nightclub, called StillLife Nightclub, on the roof of Sutton’s Drug Store. Sustaita says through...

July 8, 2020

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Save RDU Forest issue: What happened with the “sunset clause”?

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In the contentious fight between Umstead Coalition and activists, Wake Stone Corp. and Raleigh-Durham International Airport, one major point of argument has been over the “sunset clause.” That is the clause in the permit for the existing Wake Stone mine that states how long the mine can operate. That mine, located off Harrison Avenue, has been operating since 1981. The gaps in the trees...

June 17, 2020

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How The ArtsCenter has changed is the saddest thing to happen to Carrboro

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The lights keep going out in Carrboro. What will happen if The ArtsCenter's toxic Jones Ferry project is actually built?

May 25, 2020

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