Blake Hodge, Author at Chapelboro.com

Poll Shows Tight Race Ahead for Chapel Hill Municipal Election

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 23, 2015 | Election, Featured

Undecided voters will likely determine the Chapel Hill Town Council and Mayoral leadership this November, according to new polling numbers. With a heated campaign season well underway, Public Policy Polling commissioned a Chapel...

UNC Receives High Marks on College Scorecard

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 23, 2015 | Featured, UNC

UNC came out above average across the board in the newly released federal data grading colleges across the country. On average, college graduates earn $1 million more over their lifetime than those who only completed high...

UNC Faculty Chair Bruce Cairns Suffers Heart Attack

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 23, 2015 | Featured, UNC

UNC has announced that Faculty Chair, and North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Director, Dr. Bruce Cairns suffered a heart attack last Friday, September 18. The university released a story on Wednesday saying Cairns was visiting...

UNC Joins SGC to Make Research Publicly Available

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 22, 2015 | Featured, UNC

UNC is the newest member of an international partnership with a goal to finding cures for some of the most widespread diseases of our time. The University of North Carolina has joined the Structural Genomics Consortium,...

Ribbon Cutting Held for New IFC Community House

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 22, 2015 | Featured, Nonprofit

The new Inter-Faith Council Community House is now officially open. Voices from the United Church of Chapel Hill choir filled the air on a cool cloudy Monday at eight o’clock in the morning, as hundreds of community members...

One Killed in Fiery Wreck on Highway 86 in Cedar Grove

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 22, 2015 | Featured, Traffic

The driver of a tractor-trailer carrying propane was killed in a wreck in northern Orange County just after 6:30 this morning. All northbound lanes of NC 86 near Cedar Grove were closed after the wreck at the intersection of NC...

UNC Students Honor Shooting Victims with Day of Service

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 21, 2015 | Featured, UNC

Students in the UNC School of Dentistry gathered last Thursday for a day of service in memory of a fellow student murdered earlier this year. Thursday marked 219 days since three Muslim college students were shot and killed in...

Chapel Hill Business Receives $100K Grant

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 17, 2015 | Business, Featured

Vimala Rajendran is the owner and chef of Vimala’s Curryblossom Café on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. And a crowd gathered in the courtyard outside the restaurant on Wednesday as Chase delivered a $100,000 grant to Vimala’s....

Crews Respond to Fire in Southern Village

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 15, 2015 | Safety

Six Chapel Hill Fire Department trucks responded to a report of a structure fire just before one o’clock Tuesday afternoon at 500 Market Street in the Southern Village Neighborhood. Authorities say the call was received from an...

Closing Time for He’s Not Here?

Posted by Blake Hodge | Sep 15, 2015 | Featured, Safety

UPDATE: He’s Not Here Agrees to Offer with ABC Commission A long-time Chapel Hill establishment may be forced to close shop in connection with the fatal wrong-way crash on I-85 earlier this year. He’s Not Here opened its...

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