Downtown Pittsboro was scheduled to be bustling with activity last Sunday, but the return of the seventh annual Summer Fest was called off because of the threat of severe weather.
Owls and hawks alike soared high in the skies above Starrlight Mead on Saturday when Claws Inc. — an organization dedicated to assisting wild and exotic animals — held a bird-releasing event
The protest featured speeches from several youth organizers along with Pittsboro Mayor Cindy Perry. As Perry spoke, she held her own sign that read “My arms are tired from holding this sign since the 1960s.”
Pittsboro’s board of commissioners unanimously approved a motion to pursue litigation against industries responsible for repeated discharges of PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane into the Haw River.
VinFast, the Vietnamese automaker planning a $4 billion electric vehicle manufacturing facility at Chatham’s Triangle Innovation Point, hopes to begin moving dirt at its 1,977-acre site on or around July 1.