Chatham County News

By MARY BAINES North Carolina Extension Service is currently offering 4-H Youth Development programs for Nash County residents.

There is good reason for it. No matter their relative impotence regarding the matter, people blame politicians for joblessness and bad economies.

Dogs are in the news these days for all of the jobs that they are doing. Their sniffers are part of the reason that they are so highly in demand and have such a wide range of jobs that they accomplish without incident.

Carolina Friends student wins national essay contest DURHAM - Jake Taylor, a Chapel Hill resident and middle school student at Carolina Friends School, won a national Listen to a Life essay contest, offered by the Legacy Project.

Omtron USA LLC, which laid off hundreds of workers last year after buying Townsends chicken processing facilities in Chatham County, is fighting back against local farmers who say they're owed $9 million .

Up for bids is a 4.56-acre, undeveloped site at the corner of Wake Forest Road and McNeill Road in Raleigh.

Mark Riggsbee, deputy chief of the North Chatham Volunteer Fire Department, said crews were scheduled to go out from the Vista Point boat launch at about 8 a.m. The man for whom they were searching was in his 50s and was tubing behind a boat when he fell into the water about 3 p.m. Sunday, Riggsbee said.

Two Triangle schools ranked in the top 100 in Newsweek's 2013 "America's Best High Schools" list released Monday.

Many new farmers have spent time working at Alex and Betsy Hitt's Peregrine Farm in Graham.

The measles outbreak reported earlier this month in North Carolina is spreading, according to the latest numbers from state health officials.

Charles Holeman, Jr., right, and 9-year-old Kaitlyn Wrenn admire the mounted head of Benson Bull as Ashley Davis and 6-year-old Will Holeman check in for a tour of Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm.

If you have ever wanted to learn how to plant a garden to attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators, this workshop is for you.

Durham School of the Arts was the top school in the state and the Triangle, ranked 176 nationally, in the U.S. News & World Report's 2013 Best High Schools list released Tuesday.