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🌱 How a Hillsborough native preserves a 150-year-old Nags Head cottage

Hillsborough, North Carolina Patch AM: a 4 min read

Morning Hillsborough! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Hillsborough native preserves a 150-year-old Nags Head cottage

Also on today's calendar: Business After Hours - OE Enterprises and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: How far can a fast dog run into the woods? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 84 and low of 68 degrees.
  • Thursday: Some sun with a stray t-storm, temps: high: 85, low: 60.
  • Friday: Mostly cloudy and less humid, with a high of 79 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Still Life of a Nags Head Beach Cottage (ourstate.com) — Hillsborough native photographer Elizabeth Matheson, known for her book “Hidden Hillsborough,” turns her lens on Spider Villa, a 150-year-old Nags Head cottage her extended family has cherished for generations. Her images capture quiet, intimate summer rituals, from porch games to ocean swims, while the family weighs how long the historic house can endure rising seas and powerful storms.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • 🚨 🆘 🚨 🆘 🚨 Woody, Snail, and Clementine have until 12pm tomorrow for someone to come forward for them!
    If you can adopt or foster, please reach out to GCACE Pets Seeking Rescue/Gaston County Animal Care and Enforcement. If you can't, please share… (Nextdoor Palmers Grove)
  • To echo a favorite senior health care professional, “plan senior care, before it plans you”
    To make this process smoother: • raise the topic early • get your siblings aligned • research your options With independence in mind, many seniors… (Nextdoor Hardscrabble)
  • Government Jobs posted a job opening for Police Officer - Trainee through Police Corporal - Certified/Lateral in Hillsborough. Apply here.
  • ABB Group posted a job opening for Manufacturing Production Operator-Smart Power 2nd shift in Mebane. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hillsborough here.

🗞 Nearby News

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  • On Air Today: Chapel Hill's 2026 Pride Promenade! (chapelboro.com)
  • The top July 4 fireworks, festivals, and food trucks in the Triangle + maps (wral.com)
  • US breakthrough provides real-time airborne PFAS detection (innovationnewsnetwork.com)

Ok Hillsborough! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Halfway. After that, the dog is running *out of* the woods. (Thank you Jake M. for sending it in!)
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