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The Durham Police Department has been tracking impacts from Tropical Storm Debby on roads throughout the city. Here’s where problems have been reported as of 4:46 p.m.: Traffic Light Outages * Broad Street and Murray Avenue. * T.W. Alexander Drive and I-885. * T.W. Alexander and Weck drives.
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Expected impacts from Tropical Storm Debby persuaded Durham Public Schools administrators to cancel classes on Thursday, Aug. 8, and made it an optional remote work day for employees. Friday, Aug. 9, is scheduled as an early release day. Whether students actually go to school on Friday is a wait-and-see decision
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Members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity recently showed up at Rogers-Herr Middle School to give high-fives to arriving students – and donated $250 toward the school’s program for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports or PBIS. PBIS is expected to support behavioral, academic, social, emotional, and mental health among students,
Business
Discount retailer Big Lots is cutting its 60 North Carolina stores down to seven. Two of the stores that are closing are in Durham. The locations expected to close are: * 3420 Southwest Durham Dr. * 2000 Avondale Dr. The news comes about two months after the parent company based in Columbus,
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Features
Last week, after it cooled off a little, the kids and I put on our orange vests and gloves, picked up our grabbers and our heavy-duty trash bags, and made our way from Primrose School along Juliette to Cook Road. “Bottle!” Athena shouted, plucking one of those little airplane vodka
Business
Triangle Insights Group, a strategy consulting firm advising life science leaders in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and related industries, has announced two new partners: Aileen Nicoletti, PhD, and Michael Turner. This move follows Triangle’s acquisition by Mercalis in April 2022. Nicoletti, with more than 20 years of experience, specializes in portfolio
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Milestones
July 13, 2024 Julian Lincoln Boswell, 99. Memorial service Aug. 10 from noon to 1 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Durham. July 18, 2024 Joseph Suhorsky, 96. A Celebration of Life will be set for a future date. July 20, 2024 Jason Alexander Arritt, 34. No services listed.
Festivals
The OUTSOUTH Queer Film Festival, which started in 1995 as “A Salute to Pride” and then ran from 1996 to 2019 as the North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival, is back Aug. 8-15 at The Carolina Theatre. Considered the second largest LGBTQ+ film festival in the southeastern United States, it
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Late this week – especially Thursday and Friday – Southpoint Access readers in and around Durham should be prepared for heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Debby after the storm crosses Florida, back into the Atlantic, and then through the Carolinas should it follow the projected path. According to the National Hurricane Center,
Business
BrodyCo, the developer that in April had planned to build more self-storage units for Durhamites in the hopes of revitalizing Lakewood Shopping Center, is putting that on hold. But perhaps not indefinitely. Instead, the developers may return with alternative plans in the future. That’s according to a letter sent
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Commentary
In the 10th episode of To the Point, Wes Platt, editor and publisher of Southpoint Access, discusses the impending decision of Durham Public Schools on whether to relocate Durham School of the Arts to a new site more than two miles from downtown. It’s a decision that mostly seems