Chatham County News

Triangle Land Conservancy's annual bicycle tour, Ride for the Land, comes to Chatham County on July 11.

American Tobacco Trail is quite possibly one of the most comprehensive and beautiful running trails in all of North Carolina.

It's fitting that Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey titled their new album "Here and Now" . Considered in the here and now, it's a mighty fine set of catchy popcraft you'll be happy to find yourself humming afterward.

Fearrington Village will present Mike Wiley's performance of Blood Done Sign My Name, a memoir by Tim Tyson, in the Fearrington Barn on Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12.

Police are still searching for a beige van or sport utility vehicle that may have been involved in a car crash Monday that killed a 16-year-old Cary girl.

It's been a long wait, but the trial date has finally been set for the Hillsborough man who allegedly fired shots at Orange High School after killing his father.

Chain saws buzzed Friday in many Asheville neighborhoods as cleanup from Thursday's powerful storm continued.

Digital conversion has left even some prepared UNC-TV viewers without a signal. Since digital conversion was completed Friday, some local UNC-TV viewers have had problems receiving the public television network, even with the requisite digital televisions and converter boxes.

A Chapel Hill man is facing drug charges after Chatham County authorities could smell burnt marijuana during a routine traffic stop on US 15-501. Authorities originally stopped Julandus Answan Foushee, 21, for a traffic violation Tuesday afternoon.

At its meeting on June 15, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners adopted a 2009-10 general fund budget of $80.5 million, a 3% overall reduction from the current budget, and lowered the tax rate from 65.3 cents to 60.22 cents per $100 valuation.

The Chatham County Public Library is providing young readers a great way to have fun and express their creativity through activities and events offered through the three libraries.

There are 59 cases of the H1N1 virus in North Carolina. Four new cases, an adult and three children, were confirmed Wednesday in Johnston County.

"It's almost like a bad tsunami blowing our way," said Thava Mahadevan, executive director of XDS Inc., a Chapel Hill-based mental health provider, "and you don't know which way to run.

As of Wednesday, June 10th, 2009, there are three confirmed cases of swine flu in Chatham County.

Raleigh police arrested a man Monday after an early-morning pursuit that spanned Wake and Chatham counties.

The first time Michael Manning heard his future wife speak, he knew there was something different about her.

A group of Apex and Cary residents are fighting a state Department of Transportation proposal to expand a stretch of U.S. Highway 64 that runs through their towns into an expressway.

So can you believe lil' ole Chatham County now has four farmers' markets? So now no one has an excuse for not being able to make it to at least one of them during the week, right? Our farmers have been hard at work growing and harvesting our food.

Charles Perkinson of Siler City is charged with one felony count of statutory rape and one felony count of child abuse.

Chatham County authorities have charged a Cary man with indecent exposure. A woman reported to deputies that a naked man grabbed her while she was walking through the Wildlife Observation area off of U.S. 751 in Chatham County.