By VICTORIA JOHNSON For Annika Lowe, the idea to fight local “period poverty” all began with TikTok. While scrolling through the social media platform in November, Lowe, a junior at the Chatham School of Science & Engineering, an initiative based out of Chicago caught her eye. The nonprofit “Her Drive” was organizing donation drives across […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON PITTSBORO — Less than a block away from Pittsboro’s historic courthouse, two young Mexican immigrants have baked something new out of an old recipe. For nearly two years, Carolina Cravings served up southern delicacies from 84 Hillsboro Street to Pittsboro’s community and beyond. Now, Carolina Cravings is under new management — and […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON & HANNAH MCCLELLAN North Carolina will ease several mass gathering restrictions, Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday, thanks to North Carolina’s improving COVID-19 metrics and accelerating vaccine rollout. The executive order will go into effect Friday, March 26 at 5 p.m. “North Carolina has done the work to slow the spread of this […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON & D. LARS DOLDER PITTSBORO — The trucks arrived in January: dozers, backhoes, compactors. Soon, they’d stripped the pavement and gutted the roundabout. Almost overnight, it seemed, Neal’s Gas and Convenience — directly adjacent to Pittsboro’s historic traffic circle — was all but engulfed by the downtown road construction. Where the property […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON SILER CITY — Tucked away on East 3rd Street, Rojo Canela, a family-owned Mexican restaurant, has been whipping up authentic food for Siler City since 2018. Now, the lights are off, the tables are empty and the kitchen’s closed. After nearly three years of serving Siler City with “calidez humana,” or human […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON Last week’s severe weather delayed vaccine shipments across the country and forced Chatham vaccine providers to reschedule appointments originally planned for earlier this week. Now, the vaccine shipments have arrived, and for Chatham’s biggest vaccine providers, it’s back to business as usual. The Chatham County Public Health Department had expected to receive […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON SILER CITY — When Siler City resident Perla Ayala was younger, her family often encouraged her to consider three specific careers. Her older sister suggested nursing or cosmetology, while her father suggested law. Ayala rejected each option every time. “I didn’t want to do anything that was related to nursing or cosmetology,” […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON Prospera, a Florida-based Hispanic nonprofit, will offer a free, Spanish-language seminar about several grant programs to North Carolina’s Hispanic small business owners on Feb. 4, according to a Jan. 22 press release. The hour-long seminar, which will start at 6 p.m., will discuss two business grant programs offered by NC IDEA, a […]
By VICTORIA JOHNSON Twenty-year-old Siler City resident Ruben Ocelot wants to see the federal government pass immigration reform more than any other legislation — and now that Joe Biden’s taking the reins of the presidency, he thinks it just might happen. “We need it bad,” he said, later adding, “I mean, immigration reform — it […]
By INFORME DEL PERSONAL PITTSBORO — La icónica rotonda de Pittsboro está recibiendo una revisión funcional y estética para hacerla más segura para peatones y conductores. Se inició el trabajo en el proyecto — que vale $2.48 millones — el lunes. Este trabajo incluirá el fresado y repavimentación de la rotonda, así como unos 250 […]