Hillsborough News

Douglas "Shadow Dancer" Logan, of Hillsborough, N.C., dances during the intertribal dance in the sacred circle at the 17th annual Cultural Arts Festival and Pauwau at the Waccamaw Tribal Grounds in Aynor Saturday afternoon.

On her home-recorded tunes, like the stunning "At the Equinox," it burns with a low, steady heat, familiar and trustworthy like the old-fashioned foot warmer at the end of a Southern grandmother's bed.

Every day I drive across the University Railway tracks four times, and every day I think about the "Whooper" passenger train, known for its distinctive whistle, that last carried people to Carrboro's station in 1938.

Voters in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district and residents of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough will have their say Tuesday, with the outcome of only the uncontested Hillsborough mayor's race certain going into Election Day.

Orange County Government Services will open a few renovated and constructed buildings throughout Downtown Hillsborough.

Long before I had to frustrate the maws of Bambi , I loved daffodils. As spoilers of my ambition to become a prize-winning gardener, like my father-in-law, Bambi and her kin forced me to grow flowers and shrubs distasteful or harmful to them.

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The election comes to a close on Tuesday evening. The polls, open since early voting began on Oct.

28 1:54 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/43730/ Despite rainy conditions, a record number of volunteers turned out Saturday to participate in Hillsborough and Northern Orange County's NC Big Sweep.

Talking to Aaron Nelson and Brian Toomey, one gets the sense that providing affordable health care does not have to involve the brutal drama playing in town hall meetings across the country.

Stevens says connecting the neighborhoods through walkways and trails is a great way to keep the community feeling in Hillsborough.

Demand was so great for H1N1 vaccines in Orange County that officials began turning people away even before two immunization clinics opened Friday.

It was announced today that the William Wise / Millennium Bank assets will be sold at Public Auction in Raleigh, NC.

Ever since cave paintings presented a rudimentary depiction of the male and female form, pornography has had its place in the history of human existence.

Why not spend your Halloween competing in the second annual Chili and Salsa Cookoff in Hillsborough? The Hillsborough/Orange County Chamber of Commerce is hosting the contest from noon to 4 p.m. Oct.

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The Chapel Hill News asked candidates for Carrboro mayor and aldermen three questions and asked each to pose a fourth of their choosing.

In a 4-3 vote Tuesday, Hillsborough County commissioners rejected plans for a tent city in the eastern part of the county.

A North Carolina woman said a family's lost dachshund apparently walked 80 miles toward home before she found him outside a church.

Troopers are investigating a possible fatality after a car slammed into the back of a tractor trailer on Hillsborough Avenue and Countryway Boulevard early this morning.