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Milestones
Four Durham County Library employees received scholarships from The Friends of the Durham Library for the 2024 Academic Scholarship Program. The annual program, which awards scholarships of up to $2,500, goes to library employees pursuing studies in library science or related fields. * Jana Bradley will begin the Library Science
Business
TruLab, a leading provider of technology for clinical trial oversight, has announced its relocation from San Francisco to Frontier RTP, the coworking and office campus located in Hub RTP in Research Triangle Park. Four top large pharmaceutical companies and numerous biotech organizations rely on TruLab to reduce the risk of
Southpoint Access
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Business
Gotcha Covered, a leader in custom window treatment consultation in the U.S. and Canada, has announced the opening of a new location in Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C. The location is owned and operated by Tom Clapham and Sarah Wike. With an emphasis on end-to-end consultations,
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Milestones
June 9, 2024 * Cristina Celeste Perez, infant. * Wallace Umstead, 76. Funeral service June 21, 11 a.m., at St. Mark AME Zion Church, 531 S. Roxboro St. June 11, 2024 * Alice Beck, 89. Funeral service June 29, noon, St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Havelock. June 12, 2024 * Anna Mason
Local Government
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a new grant totaling more than $1 million to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services for lead testing in schools and daycare centers. This funding was highlighted at an event in Durham on Tuesday where EPA Acting Regional Administrator
Features
In honor of Juneteenth, Southpoint Access is sharing the transcript of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s speech declaring that Black people held as slaves should be “forever free.” The speech was given on Jan. 1, 1863: Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our