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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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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.
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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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