Features

In the days after Helene, a student radio station became a lifeline

November 1, 2024 Hannah Adams

WASU-FM at Appalachian State University played a crucial role in helping students and local residents get information and support.

Healing Pines Respite seeks to create community among cancer survivors

November 1, 2024 Matthew Broderick

Healing Pines Respite is a nonprofit organization looking to help women dealing with cancer find a sense of community.

N.C. State Fair features 73 new food items and two new rides

October 25, 2024 Reyna Drake

The Fair showcases North Carolina’s $111 billion agriculture and agribusiness industry, and it featured some farmers who are trying to recover after Helene damaged their farms.

Meet the eccentric owner of a unique Carrboro store

October 25, 2024 Matthew Broderick

Surplus Sid’s is popular year-round, but it gets especially busy this time of year, as students look for unusual Halloween costumes.

UNC students share what they plan to wear – and what they hope to see – on Halloween

October 25, 2024 Sarah Ellis

With Halloween rapidly approaching, students are planning their Halloween costumes. Last year was all Barbie and Ken, what will this Halloween have in store? Carolina Connection’s Sarah Ellis asked students what they are dressing up as and what trends they hope to see.

A UNC System initiative is helping fire departments move away from toxic PFAS foams

October 17, 2024 Foster Foday-Hemingway

A recently passed North Carolina law created a statewide program to dispose of fire fighting foams containing PFAS, a group of toxic chemicals that can contaminate drinking water.

Freestyle rappers create beats – and community – weekly

October 11, 2024 Twumasi Duah-Mensah

UNC Cypher performs in the pit every Wednesday. The freestyle rappers have no pre-written material.

Sharon Lawrence poses in front of a Carolina Playmakers Banner.

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.

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.

‘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.