The Durham Herald

Dec. 15, 2012 @ 03:25 PM

Opportunities available to volunteer

Check out opportunities for giving your time and resources at www.handsontriangle.org or contact Lynn Odom at 919-613-5105.


Dec. 15, 2012 @ 10:40 AM

Meadowsweet owners just can’t help themselves

If you are a regular visitor to Durham Central Park, you may have noticed that the plant beds along the west side of Foster Street and the Grace Garden (in the northwest corner of the park on Roney street) have become much more beautiful in the past few years.


Dec. 15, 2012 @ 09:58 AM

Preservation Durham Award: Golden Belt Mill Houses

Scientific Properties is perhaps best known for its successful rehabilitation of the Golden Belt mill complex, a 2010 winner of Preservation Durham’s Pyne Award.  This fully occupied campus, once home to Julian Carr’s Golden Belt Manufacturing Company, a turn-of-the-20th-century company that manufactured packaging for tobacco products, now houses lofts, retail, office space, galleries and events.


Dec. 13, 2012 @ 01:18 PM

In the military

Air Force Reserve Airman Miguel A. Vargas Guadalupe graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.


Dec. 12, 2012 @ 04:39 PM

What we’re reading at the public library

Most borrowed books at the Durham County Public Library last week


Dec. 08, 2012 @ 10:47 AM

Enjoying the urban forest in winter

Now that the leaves have mostly fallen and the leaf blowers are quieting down, it’s nice to note the seasonal changes to our landscape.  With the branches bare we can see into the crowns of our trees and get reacquainted with how their form follows function. We can also appreciate, in retrospect, the way  leaves absorb sound, light and air pollution, and block unwanted vistas into our neighbor’s yard.


Dec. 08, 2012 @ 10:12 AM

Garden Club decorates VA hospital chapel

As the days get shorter and fall fades into winter, the Heritage Garden Club has found a unique way to honor our veterans.


Dec. 08, 2012 @ 08:51 AM

OPEN DURHAM: NORTHGATE MALL

The property upon which Northgate Mall sits today had a rural character prior to the construction of the US 70 bypass immediately to its north in 1958-1959.


Dec. 08, 2012 @ 08:04 AM

DSA freshmen compile, read from memoirs

The Publishing Club of Durham School of the Arts held its annual book reading Dec. 2nd at the Regulator Bookshop, where high school freshmen read to an audience selections from their newly published memoirs.