Independent news and updates for South Durham, covering local development, government, health, and community life.

[The Gourmand Next Door] Chianti, What a Fiasco!

You may recognize the bottles, fiaschi, as the straw-wrapped, squat bottles that often serve as candelabras. A wine that requires little thought, and even less deliberation.   

Durham brings back $10,000 aid for Fayetteville Street businesses

A yearlong city program will offer money, coaching, training, and technical help to qualifying businesses along the historic corridor.

In Memoriam: Durham Obituaries – Sept. 8, 2026

Honoring lives recently lost in the Durham community, with upcoming services and remembrances.

Duke tower returns to Durham Board of Adjustment after jurisdiction error

The proposal for the cell tower along Scott King Road requires three variances and a special-use permit, with questions about visibility, property values, and whether Duke has shown the required hardship.

Friday football matchups cap packed week for South Durham schools

Jordan visits Riverside, Hillside travels to Orange, and middle school teams open competition across soccer, volleyball, football, and cross country.

[Dispatches Received in Error Issue 22] Receipt for the Purchase of Three Midnights

A weekly serial fiction project for paid subscribers, unfolding through a growing archive of documents from an alternate-universe Southpoint.

Durham commissioners could approve $55M emergency operations center Tuesday

Although Tuesday's meeting is a work session, the board's consent agenda lists the emergency center and 19 other proposals as action items. Violence and homelessness plans are scheduled mainly for discussion.

What Southpoint Access Is Becoming

The newsletters are staying. Now I’m also building practical guides that can help with everyday life in South Durham.

South Durham in Five: Sept. 5, 2026

Five questions, five answers, and one look ahead from Aug. 31-Sept. 4.

Page Road Project, Rockwood Affordability Plan Head to Durham City Council

The Sept. 8 agenda also includes Durham’s emerging gun violence strategy, more than $20 million in water and sewer contracts, and three possible futures for N.C. 147.

What Does South Durham Cook?

Share the dish that tastes like home for the SoDu We Enjoy Food community cookbook.

[SoDu Crime Watch] Vehicle-Related Thefts Top South Durham Crime This Week

Police logs show 28 thefts from vehicles, 22 shoplifting reports, and six stolen vehicles from Aug. 27 through Sept. 3.