Chapel Hill News

Foreign languages were again the draw for a standing-room crowd that spilled out the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board's meeting room last week.

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, discusses his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill.

It's important to invest as much as possible in your dreams, Middle College High School senior Eeyi Oon told her classmates on Friday afternoon.

He ended up having a random conversation that has transformed not only his life but also his city.

Brian Gregory Minton, who was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Joshua Bailey, has appealed his conviction saying the case against him was weak and prosecutors bolstered it by using inadmissible character evidence.

Johnson has a proposal for doing exactly that. He wants to provide his employees with a pay raise in 2013-14 using available funds within his budget to keep more of them from leaving the department for financial reasons.

The S.A. Gilliam Scholarship Awards Banquet is among the highlights of the celebration.

For their third release, "Coyotes," the wife-and-husband-duo of Andrea and Pete Connolly - better known as Birds and Arrows - wanted to extend their sound palette.

Colin Moran strays a bit from my previous two spotlights on Clint Frazier and Kris Bryant.

Dogs have to stay on leashes in Raleigh parks but can run freely at three dog parks: Oakwood , Millbrook Exchange and Carolina Pines .

The Red Bicycle Coffee and Crepes opened a few months ago after relocating to Germantown from Chapel Hill, N.C. I've been meaning to stop in for a while, but I was finally able to get over there for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

All you've got to do is get on the L train, and you're going to see every version of every character in our play.' Age & Hometown: 31; Chapel Hill, NC.

Former presidential contender John Edwards has reactivated his license to practice law and is setting out on the speaking circuit.

Sixth grader Zoe Morris refused to take the standardized tests known as "Measures of Student Learning" that started Tuesday at McDougle Middle School in Chapel Hill.

Protzman is a Naval Academy graduate, a successful businessman and a former Chapel Hill Town Council member.

Rose Dodds from Bel Air, Md., was searching for a recipe for a cake with a texture similar to poundcake and the almond flavor of Italian amaretti cookies.

Triangle towns that currently have some form of outdoor smoking ban on public grounds include Angier, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Holly Springs, Lillington, Morrisville, Raleigh, Rolesville, Selma, Smithfield, Wake Forest and Wendell.

The Swansboro Friends of the Library and Swansboro Historical Association are co-hosting a presentation this week on women during the Civil War.

Landlords, property owners and property managers who want to register individual rental housing, should contact Megan Wooley, Housing and Neighborhood Services Planner II, at 919-969-5059, or email mwooley@townofchapelhill.org Information about the Landlord Partnership Program, along with a list of participating landlords, will be posted on the ... (more)

Avison Young, Canada's largest independently owned commercial real estate firm, is opening a Charlotte office and has hired industrial broker Chris Skibinski to lead it.