The number of patients admitted to Duke Hospital with the flu has more than doubled over the past two weeks.
County Commissioner Ellen Reckhow appears likely to lose her seat on the Triangle Transit board, to be replaced on it by fellow Commissioner Fred Foster.
Angela Lee has been named the new executive director of The St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, the organization that runs Hayti Heritage Cente
Melissa Edwards has no use for grades. The Chatham County mother homeschools her two children, Henry and Scarlett. She doesn’t give them As, Bs or Cs in the subjects they’re studying. She doesn’t need to, she said.
The latest art show, “Durham’s Finest” at the North Carolina Central University Art Museum opened Sunday with record-breaking crowds, and many of the artists and their teachers were on hand to talk about their art and their lives.
He walked the beat at night until 2 a.m. in Hayti. No, he couldn’t drive a police car. Black police officers weren’t allowed to have cars. When he went to his department’s headquarters, he was told he could only enter through the basement. He had no locker, no office space, couldn’t use the drinking fountain and couldn’t use the white man’s bathroom. Yet he and his fellow Hayti police officers are credited with defusing racial tension in Durham as black people began struggling for their rights.
Artist Michael Brown has designed and painted many murals that are part of the local landscape. Among his pieces of public art are the mural at the old Chapel Hill Post Office, the image of the bull at Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the nighttime cityscape mural at Manbites Dog Theatre.
Law enforcement officers from Durham and across the nation will do “battle” next weekend to raise money for scholarships and to honor a fallen Durham police officer.
Not every note was perfect, and sometimes they had to start again, but about 100 people joined together and read and played music Saturday during the annual Open Reading Session at the Durham Arts Council.
Ever been to the Durham Farmers’ Market and in the distance hear the sound like a blues band with a very exuberant singer?
Head on over toward the food trucks on Hunt Street, and see Lenny “Mojo Hand” Green singing and playing, while being accompanied by a sound system.
Durham Technical Community College graduates now have another established route to obtaining a four-year degree.
The two-year community college this week signed a memo of understanding with N.C. Wesleyan College that formalizes a transfer partnership between the two schools.
IIn Durham, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is more than just one day.
Events are scheduled the weekend prior to the MLK holiday, this year on Jan. 21, as well as throughout the month, honoring the esteemed civil rights leader in various ways. January events range from a law enforcement basketball tournament to a march and rally to guest preachers in local churches.
Plans have been filed to develop an automobile dealership near The Streets at Southpoint in the location off Fayetteville Road where South Carolina developers were, at one time, looking to develop a Walmart shopping center.
The top two candidates for the City Council’s Ward 3 vacancy both voiced skepticism Friday about claims that the controversial 751 South project would create the sort of jobs likely to alleviate poverty.
A couple of political newcomers could give City Council members a fallback option for filling the vacant Ward 3 seat, should they deadlock on the top two contenders.