By Carl Mueller Bear Creek, NC – I’ve been in search for decent internet service for almost three years now for my property in Bear Creek close to Goldston. While Century Link claimed they could provide DSL, I didn’t sign…
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Who can I offend today?
By Mark Stinson Silk Hope, NC – Lately no matter how hard I try there is some very fragile person who melts down if I don’t say something to suit their emotional fragility. These overly critical overthinking superficial I’m better…
The truth will be told
By N.A. Booko Pittsboro, NC – A couple of days ago I wrote about my mother. I didn’t know a lot about her parents other than they were a great grandma and grandpa! Sometime in the 1960s after all of…
Upset about your Chatham County tax assessment? Here’s what I did
By Burney Waring Pittsboro, NC – We got a new tax assessment, as I guess you did. When I was trying to understand it, I ended up at the handy Chatham Tax Record site, looked up my property and clicked…
Two-thirds of North Carolinians worry about side effects of COVID-19 vaccine
By Andrew Dunn Raleigh, NC – Nearly two-thirds of North Carolinians worry about harmful side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine, even as a growing majority say they’ll take it to get back to normal life. Photo by Roger Starnes Sr…
Stephanie Boone can’t wait to paint the walls of her new Chatham Habitat for Humanity house
Siler City, NC – Stephanie Boone and her kids can’t wait to paint the walls in their new Habitat house. “As simple as it is, that’s the most exciting thing to me and my kids,” Stephanie said. “That’s really a…
Chatham County Health Department celebrates National Public Health Week by highlighting staff and community partners in COVID-19 vaccination process
Pittsboro, NC – National Public Health Week (NPHW) is April 5th through 11th this year, a time to recognize those individuals who contribute to public health on a small and large scale. The Chatham County Public Health Department (CCPHD) is…
One On One: Did a North Carolinian cause the Suez Canal back-up?
By D.G. Martin Chapel Hill, NC – Who is responsible for last month’s jam up in the Suez Canal? Could it be a North Carolinian? The damages to the quarter-mile long container ship, Ever Given, which ran aground in the…
Roy Cooper signs measures to address effects of pandemic on students
By Carolina Journal Staff Raleigh, NC – Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday, April 9, signed two bills into law designed to help students who lost more than a year of in-person learning because of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns. House…
Legal challenge filed against agreement allowing toxic 1,4-dioxane pollution in Pittsboro drinking water
Chapel Hill, NC – An agreement by state regulators with the City of Greensboro allows increased discharges of cancer causing 1,4-dioxane into the drinking water source for nearly one million people in violation of the Clean Water Act and state…