At the time of the Declaration of Independence, Hillsborough was already a well-established town. Founded in 1754, it is the oldest European settlement in what is today Orange County. It is also one of the oldest in North Carolina.
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Our green spaces are among the best things about Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough.
Civil society in this country is dying. It needs C.P.R.: compassion, perspective, and responsibility to be resuscitated.
Our area is getting new transportation options, from local to global.
As director of the Chapel Hill Public Library (CHPL), Atlas Logan has the universe at her fingertips.
The North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey Booster Club has completed a purchase agreement for land at Carraway Village in northern Chapel Hill.
PlayMakers Repertory Company (PRC) the resident theater company at UNC, opens its 2024-25 season on September 11 with a presentation of “Crumbs From the Table of Joy,” by Lynn Nottage.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) have completed the latest phase of the central-office staff reconfiguration to meet a roughly $5 million budget deficit.
To meet a large budget deficit, the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS) decided this week to cut 24 full-time central office positions, effective immediately.
The Prom – this year’s musical production by The Summer Youth Conservatory (SYC) at Playmakers Repertory Company, the resident theater company at UNC – is excellent.
Two young entrepreneurs recently opened a metaphysical wellness practice on the east side of Chapel Hill.
As of July 1, Orange County Solid Waste will begin handling curbside collections in the county’s urban areas that had been contracted to GFI.
In the six months since Carr Mill’s management installed a video surveillance system four cars a day on average have been towed.
RDU now counts 69 nonstop destinations, which is more than the pre-pandemic peak.
May 20 is the anniversary of North Carolina’s Ordinance of Secession from the United States in 1861.
Teams from Carrboro High School and East Chapel Hill High School competed in the world championship tournament April 17 through 20 in Houston.
April 26 is the 159th anniversary of the day at the Bennett Place.
The Hillsborough Hogs youth hockey teams will play again this fall at the Orange County Sportsplex in Hillsborough.
Robotics teams from Carrboro High School and East Chapel Hill High School will compete in Houston’s world championship tournament from April 17 through April 20.
Differences have become bitter between Recreation Factory Partners (RFP), the firm under contract to the county to operate the Sportsplex, and Triangle Youth Hockey of North Carolina (TYHNC)
The future of public transportation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro took a big step closer to reality
Student robotics teams from Carrboro High School, East Chapel Hill High School, and Chapel Hill High School placed first, second, and third.
Several major construction projects around Chapel Hill intended to reduce traffic have entered their final stages and are scheduled to be completed in a few months.
A few weeks after Jay Mebane took the helm of Chapel Hill Fire Department (CHFD) in July 2023, the Mediterranean Deli on Franklin Street caught fire.
On Tuesday, several important local and regional traffic-reduction and transit plans were moved closer to reality at the DCHC-MPO board meeting.
Some realignment, along with sidewalks, marked crosswalks, and a traffic signal, will be added to the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. and North St.
Gurlitz Architectural Group, based in Chapel Hill, has completed designs for the ice arena that the UNC Tar Heel Ice Hockey Booster Club plans to build at Carraway Village.
Indigenous land acknowledgments are on the new trail maps in Battle Branch Park.
Regional bus system GoTriangle has increased service at Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), due to start in August 2024.
The local connection to the Wilmington Coup of 1898
The UNC Ice Hockey Booster Club is in the final stages of buying four acres of land in the Carraway Village development on Eubanks Road, on the north side of Chapel Hill.
Autumn is owl season, and not just because of the birds’ long association with otherworldliness.