Orange Slices

How Chapel Hill’s Wealth of Ethnic Restaurants and Grocery Stores Offer More than Just Delicious Food.

Merry Hill Farm is a one-of-a-kind destination in Orange County.

Leland Little Auctioneers is nestled between a highway and the country forest, not far from the town of Hillsborough.

People – visitors to Orange County and residents alike – are fascinated with the idea of visiting homes not their own.

The great cities of the world have at least one distinguishing quality, without which they would cease to be truly great.

Orange County is composed of people from different walks of life, different races, nationalities, religions, and abilities.

While UNC is still one of the best colleges in the country, for families with young children, this area now has another side to it very much worth exploring.

There are just a handful of great film festivals in America and one of them is right here in Chapel Hill.

The genius of Eric Hallman and the Piedmont Food Processing Center (PFPC) can be understood through paraphrasing the poet W. H. Auden.

North Carolina is a state that revels in its culture, but few towns provide the quirky frisson of Carrboro!

The French term en plein air means “out of doors.”

In Chapel Hill, we are surrounded by stars of all kinds, but the most important, by far, are our teachers.

Sera Cuni has mojo.

The Manager of Orange County is a woman named Bonnie Hammersley.

Growing up in a small town, or even in a small neighborhood of a larger one, there was often a “corner store.”

The Carrboro Music Festival was started in 1998 by a handful of dedicated volunteers who felt certain they could pull off a local music festival with little more than hope and a dream.

Nash Street in Hillsborough

Hillsborough, North Carolina, just down the road from its more cutting-edge sister townships, is one of the most historic destinations in our state and in our nation.

There’s an art to everything in Chapel Hill.

When North Carolina selected Courtney Banghart as the fourth head coach in women’s basketball program history, the University added another outstanding leader to its family of championship-winning head coaches.

In Chapel Hill, history surrounds us like the air we breathe.

Small businesses across Orange County were hit hard by the coronavirus, but Black-owned businesses were affected most keenly.

Since 1793 when it was founded, the only thing that hasn’t changed in Chapel Hill is its name.

There is so much to do in the Chapel Hill/Orange County Area. Where will you start?

On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free, released from a lifetime of bondage.

The uprising at the Stonewall Inn in June, 1969, sparked a liberation movement — a call to action that continues to inspire us to live up to our nation’s promise of equality, liberty, and justice for all.

A trend we’ve noted at the Chapel Hill/Orange County Welcome Center is the strong demand for housing and desire to relocate and retire to the Triangle, including Orange County.

The Carrboro Farmers’ Market (the CFM) is one North Carolina’s classic farmers’ markets, and Maggie Funkhouser, the general manager, is one very big reason why.

On June 4, 2022, North Carolina Military Appreciation Day, a ceremony will be held to honor Ted Triebel and seven other individuals the Advisory Committee of the Military Hall of Firsts has selected for induction into the inaugural class of the North Carolina Military Hall of Firsts.

Most of us do not meet for lunch and chat about stellar seismology, interacting binaries, time-resolved photometry and spectroscopy, and astronomical instrumentation.