Hometown Heroes

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Greg Georges! Georges is a long-time neighbor in our community and a local woodworker who recently spent time mentoring kids and running workshops to teach woodworking skills and bring people together to...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Chloe Strauss! Strauss is a preschool teacher and local artist, and her work in getting Creature Camp Studios off the ground has been incredible! Creature Camp Studios is a card and sticker company, where...

  This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Blossom Damania, a virologist and vice dean for research at UNC! Blossom Damania is a virologist and researcher at UNC, known for her work on oncogenic viruses that cause human cancer. Damania has...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Jim Sander of the Wildflower Lane farm in Efland! "About ten year ago, I realized that if I was going to get into farming, I needed to do it soon," said Sander. "... The first seven [years] were for...

This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Jacquie Gist! After over three decades of service, Jacquie Gist is leaving the Carrboro town council -- and it's not just her years of public service that make her this week's Hometown Hero. She was also...

  This week's Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Cindy Cheek! Cindy Cheek is one of the driving forces behind My Secret Closet, a Hillsborough-based consignment store. Nominated as a Hometown Hero for her efforts to use My Secret Closet as a...