Preparing for the Next DPS Shortfall
Once DPS resolves the budget shortfall with the current school year, it has more hurdles to jump for 2025-2026.
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In Memoriam: Durham Obituaries – July 7, 2026
Honoring lives recently lost in the Durham community, with upcoming services and remembrances.
SoDu Daily: July 7, 2026
Rolling live updates from Southpoint Access, your neighborhood news source in South Durham.
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[SeeGov Enhanced] Durham School Board Picks New Chair, Vice Chair
Joy Harrell Goff succeeds Bettina Umstead as chair, while returning board member Xavier Cason is elected vice chair.
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[Dispatches Received in Error Issue 13] Notice of Misdelivery Escalation
A weekly serial fiction project for paid subscribers, unfolding through a growing archive of documents from an alternate-universe Southpoint.