Hometown Heroes

  This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Hubert Davis! Hubert Davis’ debut season as head coach for UNC basketball ranks among the very best not just in Carolina history, but in the history of Division I basketball. Davis is the only...

  This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Tai Huynh! Huynh is currently a member of the Chapel Hill Town Council, and graduated in 2020 as a Morehead-Cain Scholar at UNC Chapel-Hill majoring in Computer Science with minors in Anthropology...

This week's Hometown Heroes, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, are the folks behind Project Graduation! Specifically, Gillian Ederle, Anna Shohfi and Becca Gwynne, the three student co-chairs for Project Graduation! These three students are in charge of organizing the...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Fran DiGiano! Co-founder of Clean Jordan Lake, an organization founded in 2009 that's been doing impressive work keeping our local water resources safe and healthy, DiGiano has spent a great deal of time...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Otis Swinton! Swinton has been carrying mail and connecting citizens for decades, delivering promises, kindness, generosity and so much more over a long career. With his retirement coming soon, there's no...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is CJ Suitt! Suitt, who was named Chapel Hill's first ever Poet Laureate in 2019, is wrapping up his time in that position this year. A Chapel Hill native and a life-long poet, CJ Suitt cofounded the...