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Chansky’s Notebook: Baseball Format Hurts ACC

Posted by Art Chansky | May 25, 2016 | Featured, Sports

Carolina is why the ACC baseball tournament format is wrong. The ACC restricting its baseball tournament to ten teams does not help its member schools that find themselves on the NCAA bubble. If there were no ACC tournament, the...

Chapel Hill – Carrboro Schools Superintendent Tom Forcella Retiring

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 24, 2016 | Featured, Pre-K - 12 Education

Dr. Tom Forcella is retiring from his position as superintendent of the Chapel Hill – Carrboro City Schools District. The announcement came on Tuesday afternoon. Forcella has worked in school districts across the country...

PPP: HB2 Still Unpopular; State Divided on November Races

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 24, 2016 | Featured, State Government

North Carolinians still disagree with House Bill 2 and nearly every statewide race is expected to come down to extremely narrow margins come November. Those are the findings of the latest Public Policy Polling survey of North...

Hillsborough Mayor On The Bellevue Mill Fire

Posted by Staff | May 23, 2016 | Featured, Fire

A huge fire in Hillsborough over the weekend incinerated historic Bellevue Mill. Orange Rural Fire Department crews were called to the scene just before five o’clock on Friday. The roof of the historic mill collapsed less than...

Elon Commencement Speech Focuses on HB2

Posted by Staff | May 23, 2016 | Featured, Higher Education

At Elon University’s Saturday graduation ceremony, CNN political analyst David Gergen began the commencement speech just like any other. “You should just be so proud and take so much satisfaction at how far you’ve come. You’ll...

Folt Announces Launch of UNC’s Ethics and Integrity Website

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 23, 2016 | Featured, UNC

After moving at what Chancellor Carol Folt called “rocket speed,” UNC has launched a new Ethics and Integrity website to help offer guidance to members of the Carolina community. “It’s a tool that will consolidate all of the...

Final Four Drought Over for UNC Men’s Lacrosse: Tar Heels Crush Notre Dame

Posted by Avery Trendel | May 22, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

Eight times since 1993 the UNC men’s lacrosse team reached the NCAA Quarterfinals, only to come up short on each occasion. After starting 2016 with a 3-3 record–and minus some of its most talented players from last...

UNC Women’s Lacrosse Final Four Bound After 10-6 Win Over Notre Dame

Posted by Avery Trendel | May 21, 2016 | Featured, UNC Sports

Facing a Notre Dame team that averages nearly 14 goals per game, the No. 3 UNC women’s lacrosse team locked down defensively Saturday to knock off the No. 6 Fighting Irish 10-6 at Fetzer Field in the NCAA Tournament...

IFC Considers Alternative Location For Community Kitchen

Posted by Staff | May 21, 2016 | Featured, Nonprofit

The Inter-Faith Council is considering a location on Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro for FoodFirst, its new community kitchen. Michael Reinke is the executive director of the Inter-Faith Council. He said in November the Carrboro...

Bellevue Mill Destroyed in Hillsborough Fire

Posted by Blake Hodge | May 21, 2016 | Featured, Fire

Crews are still working to extinguish all portions of a fire that destroyed a historic mill in West Hillsborough on Friday. Smoke poured out of the former Bellevue Manufacturing Company’s textile mill on Nash Street Friday...

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