In 1979, the City of Durham had some problems on its hands. It had a downtown area with few residents, a warehouse district with few…
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As about 80 people settled into their seats in the airy auditorium at the Durham County Library, Eddie Davis, a former City Council member and…
On a recent Saturday at 4:53 p.m., a father and daughter duo duck through blue and silver streamers and step into a ballroom bathed in…
Hope Valley Elementary School sits nestled in the corner of Dixon Road and University Drive — streets with three and four lanes of traffic respectively.…
At the first light of dawn, a truck pulls into the gravel lot behind Trinity United Methodist Church and volunteers in puffy jackets rush to…
Minutes before midnight, the City Council unanimously struck down an annexation request for a proposed development on Monday, breaking its recent trend of development-friendly votes. …
High school senior Angus Cook arrived at Monday night’s City Council meeting with a carefully rehearsed three-minute speech. Minutes before taking the podium, he found…
Five local Durham parks could be unavailable until the end of the calendar year. Durham city officials are unsure when East Durham, East End, Lyon…
The 10th Street Journal, our experiment with AI journalism, has come to an end. (That sentence was written by a human!) We had always envisioned…
At a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration Tuesday, Superintendent Anthony Lewis turned his keynote speech into a civil rights lesson. Drawing heavily upon King’s example,…