The City Council will review a unanimous recommendation by the Durham County Board of Health to continue to fluoridate Durham’s drinking water at current levels.
Published: Jun. 20, 2013 12:00 AM | Full story
The Durham County Board of Commissioners will add extra money for the schools without raising taxes beyond the county manager’s recommended increase.
Published: Jun. 19, 2013 2:25 PM | Full story
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Investigators are searching for a car with out-of-state tags that may have been involved in the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old man in East Durham Tuesday.
Published: Jun. 19, 2013 6:25 PM | Full story
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Sponsored by a Colorado beer company, the 12-city Tour de Fat stops in Durham for the third time.
Published: Jun. 18, 2013 12:16 AM | Full story
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Lobbyist Gary Salamido and Sen. Brent Jackson defended the “ag-gag” bill (May 31, N&O, bit.ly/119RQTE) not as a way of stopping whistleblowers but of ending “lying” on job applications and promoting “an honest day’s work for an honest day’s wage.”
Published: Jun. 18, 2013 7:00 PM | Full story
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Columnists: Flo Johnston | Jim Wise
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Your Best Shot, June 19
Today's Best Shot comes from reader Don Grosso: "This is a photo of my 2-year-old grandson, Brady Pease, enjoying the warm and dry weather during the first days of spring. Not that he understands daylight saving time, but he is excited that it is still light out at dinner time."
Community
‘Mama Juggs’ to hold performance to benefit cancer center
Award-winning actress, writer, producer and improv performer Anita Woodley will hold a benefit performance of her one-woman show, “Mama Juggs - The Breast Health Show,” to benefit Cornucopia Cancer Support Center at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 22, and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 23, at the Health Touch Community Center, 3500 Westgate Drive, Suite 504. | Full story
Durham gets a double feature of its black history
Black history of the Bull City has a twin bill this week, with a Thursday-night program on a little-known side of N.C. Mutual co-founder Aaron M. Moore, and a Friday-night screening of the 1948 Hayti documentary “Negro Durham Marches On.” Admission to both is free. | Full story
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