The Morehead Planetarium at UNC Chapel Hill is set to go fully digital! As a result of a $1.5 M grant from GlaxoSmithKline, the planetarium will reopen on February 5th with a state-of-the art system that, according to the UNC folks, "puts Morehead in the same class as the National Museum of Air
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01/27/2010
The market statistics for year-end 2009 were just released. In Orange County, sales were down 11% for the year, and prices were flat. Days on market were up 13% to 93 days, and the average listing sold at 96.7% of asking price. In Durham County, sales were down 8% for the year, and prices wer
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01/23/2010
The Woolworth store in Greensboro, NC, , where four black students infamously sat at its lunch counter on 2/1/1960, will open as a civil rights center and museum in February. Marking the 50th anniversary of this seminal event in the civil rights movement, the International Civil Rights Center an
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01/23/2010
This past Friday (1/8/10), a spanky new county library opened in downtown Hillsborough. Located at 137 West Margaret Lane, the library is adjacent to the new parking deck and the new Weaver Street Market. At 23,500 square feet, it's more than twice the size of the old library, and includes 16 c
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01/10/2010
The construction of an Arts Wing at Carrboro High School is scheduled to get underway in March, with completion in October of this year. The long-awaited arts wing will bring needed and beautiful spaces for chorus, band, orchestra, theater and art students to learn, practice and perform. The $4
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01/04/2010
