By Emma Hall
April 30, 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 By Emma Hall Durham’s Indio owner Wendy Sease said inflation has hit her store in multiple ways. Rent, shipping, labor and supplies have all increased. Sease said she has struggled to keep up with the changing costs. “Everything runs so tight,” Sease said of Indio. “You don’t have an excess of […]
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April 22, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024 By Emma Hall Ashley Applewhite, a real estate agent with the Jim Allen Group, said a projected decrease in interest rates by the end of 2024 should be good for the Durham housing market. “I think 2024 is really the best time right now for a lot of homebuyers to buy […]
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March 4, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024 By Emma Hall Bright Black, co-owner and founder the candle shop Tiffany Griffin, began her store with her husband in 2019. She expresses the Black experience through her candles, like with her collection highlighting Black music. The company sells its candles through a showroom in Durham, an online shop and partnerships […]
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November 30, 2023
“The sensory friendly film series is a series that we’ve created to be very welcoming and supportive of individuals with autism or other folks that may have sensory accommodations.”
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November 25, 2023
The chaos of the 2023 municipal elections will only crescendo in the 2024 presidential election. My hope is that the messy, divisive nature of Durham politics doesn’t serve as a prequel to the federal elections this next year.
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November 2, 2023
Williams went to North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., and has worked as an educator and entrepreneur in Durham since. He also emphasized that as a Black man, he believes he can better connect to Durham issues than Woodard.
“A lot of Durham problems that we are experiencing right now, they are personal, lived experiences to me,” he said.
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October 12, 2023
The municipal primary election results are in. Only a month away from Election Day, Durham held primary elections on Oct. 10 to determine the candidates for mayor and City Council in the 2023 general election. Every precinct in Durham voted in the primary elections. Out of the over 200,000 residents in Durham, 23,684 Durham residents […]
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October 3, 2023
“Going from educator to entrepreneur and all the things that I’ve experienced in between, also being a consultant in policy, really set me on par to be an effective contributor to the policymaking process,” Williams said.
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