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Restaurant owners in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are feeling the strain as they grapple with higher prices on food and supplies in the wake of a high-inflation period. Despite efforts by the Federal Reserve Bank, inflation has been slow to drop to pre-pandemic levels.

David Kim, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior and computer science major, has submitted 326 job applications so far. He’s only reached the interview round for three of them.

Ron Liberti, 56, has been creating posters for North Carolina music venues for more than three decades. His specialty is screenprinting, a centuries-old technique that he first learned while studying across the pond at Brighton Polytechnic in the late 1980s.

When Diana Chapman was applying to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program earlier this year, she knew she eventually wanted to teach in the Wake County Public School System — or leave North Carolina entirely.

Inside his dimly lit pottery studio on a secluded backroad in Pittsboro, North Carolina, Mark Hewitt sits on a stool holding a mug filled with coffee in his clay-stained, calloused hands.

Decades ago, the delivery market was a niche sliced thinly by pizzerias. After humble growth in the 2010s, delivery accounted for less than 7% of fast-food and less than 3% of full-service restaurant revenue.

Twenty million years ago, the Aurora Fossil Museum and the fossil pile out front were underwater. Prehistoric sharks, whales and seals swam around what is now the eastern part of North Carolina. 

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After Bella Grumet, a UNC-CH senior majoring in neuroscience, lost a close friend to an overdose last year, she was motivated to become an advocate for harm reduction strategies in hopes of preventing more drug-related deaths among college students.