🌱 How a new fire station will also add affordable housing
Chapel Hill, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min readWhat's up Chapel Hill! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How a new fire station will also add affordable housing
- Why an Orange County judge is keeping UNC’s civics-school report sealed
- How UNC’s road win sets up a top-10 clash in Chapel Hill
Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: Humid with a heavy t-storm, with a high of 84 and low of 71 degrees.
- Saturday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 85, low: 69.
- Sunday: Mostly sunny with a t-storm, with a high of 88 and low of 62 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
📰 News we're reading
• Chapel Hill fire station to be rebuilt, replaced by affordable housing (dailytarheel.com) — Chapel Hill is rebuilding Fire Station 4 and turning its current site into new affordable housing, funded partly by a 2024 bond. Construction will start later this year, with rezoning decisions and a public meeting coming as the town advances its Complete Community housing strategy. 
• UNC can keep private a $1.2M report into faculty complaints about civics school, judge says (wral.com) — A judge in Orange County says UNC-Chapel Hill can keep its $1.2 million internal report on the School of Civic Life and Leadership confidential, despite lawsuits from media organizations seeking its release. The ruling follows an in-camera review of the 400-plus page report, which examined faculty complaints about the new civics-focused school. Students, faculty, and journalists had pushed for public access to the findings.
• No. 7 UNC women's soccer pushes past Arkansas, 2-0, for first road win of season (dailytarheel.com) — UNC’s women’s soccer team stayed unbeaten with a 2-0 win at Arkansas and now heads back to Chapel Hill for a Sunday home showdown against No. 5 Michigan State. The Tar Heels dominated chances, scoring twice in two minutes and preserving the shutout with strong goalkeeping. Local fans can soon see this top-10 squad in action on campus.
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Duke-UNC Single Cell Initiative Symposium
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🗞 Nearby News
Carrboro
- Three Carrboro Pee Wee Homes now powered by solar energy (dailytarheel.com)
- Studio Sessions with School of Rock Chapel Hill: Singing Numbers with The Adults! (chapelboro.com)
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- Wake and Durham county visitor numbers and spending hit records in 2025 (cbs17.com)
- ‘Something has to be done': Durham unveils recommendations to curb gun violence after three-day summit (cbs17.com)
- 1920s speakeasy cocktail lounge Red Phone Booth opens in downtown Durham (abc11.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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