97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell fills in for Andrew Stuckey on Friday, Mar. 20 to share local news headlines. The first rounds of March Madness are delivering drama — with UNC women’s basketball preparing to start its own story, and UNC men’s basketball being on the wrong side of history. In local government, the results of the closest Orange County primary race is now ratified after a recount and a pair of elected bodies pass resolutions to push for constraints around the creation of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. A trio of road work projects begin around Orange County on Monday. Plus: we remember a pair of influential civil servants who recently passed and have remembrances of life coming up.


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