On Air Today: Supporting West Chapel Hill Businesses Through Street Construction

This Week: Tami Schwerin is a re-developer of The Plant, taking a cold-war industrial plant and creating a community hub of food, beverage and experiences. Her past experience includes founding a local food, renewable energy and cultural non-profit; Abundance NC. Before that she helped build Chatham Marketplace, a local co-op grocery store. She has served on art and environmental boards of directors. She traveled the world selling software in her younger years and renovated several old broken-down houses. Tami loves a challenge and creating a world that she wants to live in. She grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and loves the south and Pittsboro. Cathy Brooksie Edwards is the founder and director of heart2heartnc, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Brooksie is dedicated to helping individuals navigate end-of-life with a greater sense of ease while supporting families, caregivers, and communities through their grief journey. The organization’s community-based events and personalized services are grounded in the power of human connection and the proven practice of various modalities—from touch and sound to movement and mindfulness. heart2heartnc is part of Sanctuary at the Burrow, a conservation green burial ground offering nondenominational end-of-life services and creating a meaningful experience that honors the dead and comforts the living. Brooksie is a licensed clinical counselor, death doula, bodyworker, kundalini yoga teacher and musician with over 25 years of experience.

The Chapel Hill community is working to help a resident who lost his home and roommate during a storm in June by starting an online fundraiser. A GoFundMe page has been established to help Marvin Cruz Cordero, a Chapel Hill resident whose trailer in the Tar Heel Mobile Court was destroyed by a fallen tree on […]

A fallen tree caused by high winds and rain fell and killed a Chapel Hill mobile home park resident on Sunday. A release from the Town of Chapel Hill said members of its police and fire departments responded to a call of a fallen tree on a unit at the Tar Heel Mobile Court just […]

A Chapel Hill man died over the weekend after being hit by multiple vehicles on the interstate. The State Highway Patrol said Jerdewarrene Farrar was found dead on Interstate 540 in Wake County on Saturday night. According to a report from WRAL, authorities said Farrar had a minor crash with another vehicle and stepped out […]

Elizabeth Spencer, a grande dame of Southern literature who bravely navigated between the Jim Crow past and open-ended present in her novels and stories including the celebrated novella “Light In the Piazza,” has died at 98. Spencer, who sometimes went by her married name Elizabeth Rusher, died Sunday night in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according […]

UNC Police were investigating a death by hanging at Hinton James Residence Hall when an Alert Carolina message was sent to the campus community late Saturday, according to the incident report. The report shows that police were called to the residence hall on Saturday afternoon. Officials said at the time that the death “is under […]

A resident at UNC’s Hinton James Residence Hall has died, according to a message to the Carolina campus community. Officials said in a release that the death “is under police investigation and the information we can share is limited,” but they add, “it is important to know that no suspicious circumstances are reported and at […]

Carrboro Police have released the identity of the man found dead earlier this week. Officers found 56-year-old Christopher Burnette Sr., of Chapel Hill, deceased at 400 Roberson Street just after 7:30 Monday morning. Burnette’s body has been sent to the North Carolina Medical Examiner’s Office for evaluation, according to police. Authorities said in an initial […]

How to Help Your Child, At Any Age, Comfort Someone? Yesterday I picked some Queen Anne’s Laces alongside the road for a friend whose dying mother believes her bed sheets are made of lace. “They are so soft, so beautiful,” she told my friend who in turn told me this story. As common, noxious and […]

Lapin Blue owner Mike Benson, Baxter Bar and Arcade owner Nick Stroude, and Franklin Real Estate's Sammy Martin spoke with 97.9 The Hill's Andrew Stuckey on Tuesday, February 24. They discussed some of the challenges facing Midway area businesses with recent construction on Rosemary St. They highlighted the appeal of the Midway district's locally owned businesses and "old Chapel Hill" vibe, and more.