Hometown Heroes

This week's Hometown Heroes, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, are Kevin Belanger, Will Potter, Catherine Lazorko, and Patrice Toney. This week we're honoring four people who took the lead in helping our community navigate and made sure Carrboro could get back on it...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Kelly Drayton. Drayton is the Chapel Hill Emergency Management Director. She organized the town's response to Tropical Storm Chantal this summer. During big events, the structure of town government shifts...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Josh Gurlitz. Gurlitz came out of retirement to assist EMPOWERment Inc. with the building of the P.E.A.C.H. Apartment Complex. He's a longtime architect who gave countless hours to design the building and...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Triangle Mutual Aid. Triangle Mutual Aid is a grassroots community collective response to human needs. It started in Carrboro when residents came together to give out water during a town wide water...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is John Claude Bemis. Bemis is an acclaimed writer, musician, and visual artist and is on the board of the Orange County Arts Commission. After the damage the Eno Arts Mill suffered in Tropical Depression...

This week's Hometown Heroes, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, are Damian Hoffman, Alex Nickodem, and Brian & Linda Sanders. Brian and Linda have picked up 1200 bags of litter around our community since the pandemic so they're no strangers to cleaning up around...