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Sharon Lawrence poses in front of a Carolina Playmakers Banner.
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UNC honors actor Sharon Lawrence for supporting aspiring performers

October 11, 2024 Maddie Policastro

Among this year’s recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award is Sharon Lawrence, an Emmy-nominated actress who graduated from UNC in 1983.

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A new Orange County overdose response team hopes to help people get clean

October 11, 2024 Matthew Broderick

The county’s new Post Overdose Response Team is dedicated to helping people not only as they experience overdoses, but afterward as well.

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‘A cigar flying with wings’: Thousands of chimney swifts are roosting in UNC’s oldest tree

October 8, 2024 Sarah Ellis

The species known as the chimney swift has earned its name from settling in residential and industrial chimneys as they migrate. But in Chapel Hill, the flocks of have come to settle in the Davie Poplar.

The Ackland Art Museum has begin making these glasses available to guests through the EnChroma Color Accessibility program. (Maddie Policastro / Carolina Connection)
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The Ackland is helping colorblind people enjoy great works of art

October 4, 2024 Maddie Policastro

In a partnership with EnChroma, colorblind visitors at Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill are now able to use color corrective lenses in the galleries. EnChroma has a similar partnership with the Davis and Health Sciences Libraries on campus that began in early 2023.

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An anonymous donor will fund a full-time art conservator at the Ackland

September 27, 2024 Madeleine Ahmadi

The University recently announced an anonymous donation that will endow the position of art conservator at The Ackland Art Museum.

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Cookout seeks to build community and ease tensions between off-campus students and their neighbors

September 27, 2024 Reyna Drake

UNC’s Good Neighbor Initiative aims to promote a welcoming and enjoyable place to live for both residents and students in off-campus neighborhoods.

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Pirates help spread the message about preventing fires and preparing for emergencies

September 20, 2024 Maddie Policastro

The Tarrrr Heel Preparedness Festival hosted by Campus Safety on Thursday aimed to help students prepare for emergencies. The event had appearances from twenty-four different groups including the South Orange Rescue Squad, Chapel Hill police department and a bunch of rowdy pirates.

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Undaunted by business challenges, a Carolina alum has opened a new bar near UNC’s campus

September 13, 2024 Madeleine Ahmadi

There’s a new spot in town. Max’s Tin Can, a new UNC-centric bar sits right across the street from campus. The owner, an alum, hopes to make it a gathering spot for years to come.

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Schoolkids Records on Franklin Street is closing by the end of 2024

September 13, 2024 Hannah Adams

The Chapel Hill institution is closing by the end of 2024 due to economic pressures and consumer patterns.

Photo of 1922 on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill
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Franklin Street sees rise of new chain restaurants

September 13, 2024 Maddie Policastro

When Pulp Juice and Smoothies opens its new location at Columbia and Franklin Streets, all of the businesses at Chapel Hill’s main downtown intersection will be a chain or franchise. Is there still a place for locally-owned businesses downtown?

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