Chapelboro.com is re-publishing some of the top stories that impacted our community in 2019. These were stories that affected Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the rest of our local area.

On August 14, 75-year-old Maryanne Roseman went missing from her Orange County home. Authorities covered over 900 acres in the two-day search for Roseman.

She was found in a drainage ditch near her home. Read out story on the day she was found:


Authorities have found an Orange County woman who went missing from her home on Wednesday morning.

Crews found 75-year-old Maryanne Rosenman in a drainage ditch in a heavily wooded area between her home and where she was last near Whitfield Road.

Authorities said Rosenman — who has dementia — left her home near Turkey Farm Road just outside of the Chapel Hill town limits between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. Wednesday. A Silver Alert was issued at 12:35 p.m later that day. Authorities said it was “very out of character” for her to have left her home at that time of morning.

An update by authorities on Thursday afternoon said that 991 acres had been covered in the search for Rosenman. Twenty-five different agencies and 180 people, including several K-9 units, were dispatched.

According to authorities, Rosenman is “alive and well.”

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