Lead storyteller. Game designer and journalist. Recovering Floridian. Email: southpointaccessnews@gmail.com.
Business
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News
Do you find reporting like this valuable? Support Southpoint Access as a subscriber or advertising sponsor and make it possible to keep this information flowing to readers in our community! Breakfast and lunch are free for all DPS students this year. Menus are subject to change without notice. Pre-Kindergarten through
Local Government
Old Erwin Road from Durham to Chapel Hill is line break and film splice and not metaphor I know what is happening behind those trees though sights come through in motion-slivers She remembered it so well Look at that man cut his food. She said she remembered it so well.
News
Do you find reporting like this valuable? Support Southpoint Access as a subscriber or advertising sponsor and make it possible to keep this information flowing to readers in our community! More than 50 Durham Public Schools teachers were underpaid in their latest paycheck, bus routes have run late, and students
![[Video] To the Point Episode 12: Durham's Bumpy Back to School](/content/images/size/w600/wordpress/2024/08/to-the-point-video-12-thumbnail-template.png)
Commentary
In the 12th episode of To the Point, Wes Platt, editor and publisher of Southpoint Access, talks about Durham Public Schools’ transportation problems during the first week of traditional calendar schools, the DPS superintendent’s plan for his first 100 days, what’s on the upcoming Planning Commission agenda, the
Commentary
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Development
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![[Fiction] Dear Posse No. 16: The First Step](/content/images/size/w600/wordpress/2024/08/dearposse16.png)
Fiction
I’m working on a serial fiction project. Each segment will be published here and on Patreon. It is available in full to Patreon supporters: Dear Posse, It’s the morning after the ritual, and something has changed. The air feels lighter, and for the first time in what feels
![[In Memoriam] Durham Obituaries - Aug. 28, 2024](/content/images/size/w600/wordpress/2024/08/obits-august-28.png)
Milestones
Aug. 1, 2024 * Dr. Yvette Marion Myers, 80. Memorial service is planned in Baltimore, Md., in October. Aug. 15, 2024 * John Proctor Pradka, 76. A Celebration of Life is planned for Oct. 12 at 11 a.m. at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Durham. * J’Carol V. Williams, 44.
News
Traditional-calendar public schools got back in the classroom on Aug. 26. Tony Cunningham, digital communications specialist for Durham Public Schools, captured some images of the big day.
News
Do you find reporting like this valuable? Support Southpoint Access as a subscriber or advertising sponsor and make it possible to keep this information flowing to readers in our community! Durham Public Schools has some new faces – and some familiar faces in new roles. Here’s a quick rundown of
Development
Do you find reporting like this valuable? Support Southpoint Access as a subscriber or advertising sponsor and make it possible to keep this information flowing to readers in our community! The following projects are listed as “under review” for the South Durham area on the City of Durham’s planning