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! The Hope Valley Elementary PTA is off to a dynamic start for the 2024/2025 school year, launching several new
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News
By JOSH BOAK, Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat’s debate Tuesday with Republican Donald Trump. Her “New Way Forward” tour will include a new television spot, rallies, canvassing events, and programs designed to target important voting groups,
Milestones
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has set new records in enrollment growth this fall, marking the highest percentage increase among all University of North Carolina System schools for the second year in a row. A total of 8,579 students are now enrolled at NCCU, an 8.13% increase from
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Business
EDITED: Updated with the August 2024 media kit. Southpoint Access, an ultra-local news source for South Durham, has a media kit. Designed to provide advertisers, partners, and the media with a comprehensive overview of the platform, the media kit is now available for download on the Southpoint Access website. SPA
News
By MEG KINNARD and BILL BARROW, Associated Press Donald Trump accepted a key endorsement from one of the nation’s most influential law enforcement lobbies on Friday by offering a sweeping indictment of the U.S. legal system that has convicted him of almost three dozen felony counts and indicted
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! The transportation woes plaguing Durham Public Schools since the start of the traditional calendar school year in August are getting
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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 40% of Durham Public Schools scored in the D range during the 2023-24 academic year, according to test
News
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press A North Carolina appeals court on Friday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name must be taken off state ballots for president, upending plans in the battleground state just as officials were about to begin mailing out the nation’s first absentee ballots
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Commentary
I saw my first rated PG movie in 1979. Let me rephrase, I saw my first rated PG movie without my parents in 1979. I was a little kid and it kind of happened by accident. Normally, my folks would never let me go see a movie unchaperoned if the
News
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Environment
By Rose Hoban, North Carolina Health News Sept. 4, 2024 In April, North Carolina’s agricultural officials received an unwelcome surprise. Cows in one of the state’s dairy herds tested positive for a strain of avian influenza that’s been appearing in herds throughout the United States since the
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Commentary
Readers of Southpoint Access are encouraged to share their viewpoints in letters to the editor. Use this link to submit your thoughts! As I write this, I have no idea where in the city of Durham my 11-year-old son is at 5:45 p.m. on a Wednesday. And it’