Posted inChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, Orange County, Orange County Board of County Commissioners

Our schools are falling apart. We need a big bond to fix them.

Last week a school in Chapel Hill caught on fire. If you don’t have children at Seawell Elementary School, you might not have even noticed. Not because it wasn’t a big deal (it was), but because we’ve all grown used to similar incidents in the Chapel Hill Carrboro City School System and Orange County Schools […]

Posted inGuide, Outdoors, Things to do with kids

The Switchback Gear Collective: A growing lending library of outdoor gear

In July 2022, eight students in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health’s MPH program started a non-profit to ensure that the outdoors would be accessible, inclusive, safe, and affordable for all people. Two years later, the Switchback Gear Collective is planning on launching a lending library where you can check out camping gear as […]

Posted inChapel Hill, From the archives

Chapel Hill first commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1970.

Tomorrow, Chapel Hill, and the nation, marks Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday that was first celebrated on January 20, 1986, three years after veto-proof majorities of the United State Congress passed legislation commemorating the civil rights leader. But proposals to pass a federal holiday to honor King had been under discussion for […]