News + Record Reporter Taylor Heeden was invited to record a tour of the newly renovated Siler City Town Hall. Town Clerk Kimberly Pickard and Town Manager Hank Raper went through all three floors of the building, recapping the work that has been completed and what needs to be finished.
Chatham Literacy's SPRING FOR LITERACY event is May 17 at Governors Club. The guest speaker is famed novelist LEE SMITH, who'll talk about her career as a best-selling writer, about her new novel, "Silver Alert" (on sale April 18), and about the importance literacy plays in society today.
For tickets, go to chathamliteracy.org.
Here's a conversation with Lee Smith and the CN+R's Bill Horner III.
COMING SOON: Katie Childs talks about the work of the United Way of Chatham County — on an upcoming edition of The Chatcast. Find it here later today.
"Hell of a Book" author Jason Mott
NEW: Acclaimed author Jason Mott will be the featured speaker at Chatham Literacy's 2022 "Fall for Literacy" luncheon on Saturday, Nov. 5. It starts at 11 a.m. Tickets are $75/person and available at chathamliteracy.org.
Here's an interview with Mott about his latest novel, the National Book Award-winning "Hell of a Book." The book has been praised by critics and reviewers as brilliant, inventive, playful, searching, raw, provocative, dazzling, hilarious, moving, surprising, "a surreal feast of imagination," "maddening, disorienting, and illuminating," and "a genre-bending work of metafiction." It was included on dozens of "must-read" lists for 2021.
Mott spoke with CN+R Publisher Bill Horner III on Friday.
PITTSBORO'S NEW HAMPTON INN - Listen to audio from hotelier Malcolm Bryant as he discusses why he and his team chose Pittsboro as the site of the new Hampton Inn & Suites. He said the vision and relationships formed in Chatham County made it an easy decision.
Visit www.chathamnr.com later for full coverage of the historic groundbreaking.
AMOR TOWLES: the best-selling author of "Rules of Civility," "A Gentleman in Moscow" and Amazon's #1 book of 2021, "The Lincoln Highway," in a Q&A with the CN+R's Publisher and Editor Bill Horner III.
JOHN ROSENTHAL: the legendary photographer, essayist, former NPR commentator and now author of the new booking, "Searching for Amylu Danzer," will be the featured speaker at Chatham Literacy's "Spring for Literacy" event April 5 at Governors Club. Tickets for the event are $100 each and go on sale Feb. 1. Here's an interview with John by the Chatham News + Record's Bill Horner III. #literacy
VOTE 2021: The News + Record's Pittsboro Mayor Forum
VOTE 2021: Here's our interview with the two candidates for Pittsboro's mayoral seat — incumbent Jim Nass, who's seeking re-election, and former (2015-2019) mayor Cindy Perry, his challenger.
More video from the car fire on U.S. 64 in Siler City on Tuesday. No one was injured in the fire, which started before its driver was able to stop the vehicle and exit from it.
Car fire on U.S. 64 in Siler City
This car was driving west on U.S. 64 through Siler City when it caught fire just before 1 p.m. Tuesday. The driver slowed and ran from the automobile into the Walgreens parking lot, briefly returned to the car, and then left again. Police and fire trucks arrived in a few minutes, but not before fire engulfed the car. No one was injured.
CN+R Q&A | Dr. Lisa Chapman, CCCC
Here's an interview with Dr. Lisa Chapman by Chatham News + Record's Bill Horner III. Dr. Chapman is the president of Central Carolina Community College, and in this discussion she looks back on a year of change and at what's ahead for CCCC — and why the word "normal" is no longer a part of the vocabulary at the college.
Authors JILL MCCORKLE and TOM RANKIN have just released a new book: "Goat Light." The CN+R's Bill Horner III interviewed the wife-husband team this week — they'll be featured in the Chatham County Literacy Council's April 20 spring online author event and will speak about this unique work. More details here: https://chathamliteracy.org. Check out the interview...
NCHSAA allows modified workouts to begin
Today was the second day of socially distanced summer workouts under the NCHSAA's Phase One guidelines. Chatham News + Record's Sports Reporter, Chapel Fowler, was at Chatham Charter High School this morning as the girls and boys basketball teams rotated through a variety of drills.
A diverse group of young people are standing on the PBO traffic circle, holding signs, chanting “Black Lives Matter.” Lots of face coverings. Loud cheers whenever someone honks support.
The Chatham Community Library's doors are closed, it's still abuzz with activity — virtual and otherwise. In the latest in our series of Zoom interviews, Chatham News + Record Publisher Bill Horner III speaks with Katy Henderson, the CCL Youth Services Librarian, and Kathleen Pierce, the Youth Services Library Assistant, about the library's summer reading program and much more...
THERE'S NOT a lot of travel and tourism taking place now, but that doesn't mean Neha Shah of the Pittsboro-Siler City Convention & Visitors Bureau isn't busy. In this interview with CN+R Publisher Bill Horner III (see this week's Chatham News + Record) we explore the work Neha is doing to promote Chatham County as a destination, what "recovery" might look like for those in the industry and much more...
CN+R ZOOM: Karen Howard, chairman, Chatham County Board of Commissioners
Karen Allen Howard, the chairman of the Chatham County board of commissioners, spoke with the Chatham News + Record's Bill Horner III and Zachary Horner today about adapting, teaching, budgets and more.
