Pittsboro Eats! Supports Locally Owned Restaurants
by Casey Mann, Senior Correspondent It all started with a Facebook post. Sue Perkins Silverstein of Bear Creek wrote of her concerns about the fate of locally-owned restaurants during COVID-19 on a Chatham Caremongering Facebook page. Dozens of people chimed in with similar ...
NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green at Library
The Chatham Community Library will commemorate National Poetry Month in April with a presentation by NC Poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green. The virtual event, entitled “An Evening with the North Carolina Poet Laureate,” will take place at 6:00 p.m. on ...
Does Your Creative Life Need a Spring Cleaning? Part 1
by Michele Berger Wow, we’re now in the second quarter of the year! Can you believe it? It seems like only yesterday when we were writing down resolutions for our creative lives in 2021. Have some of those commitments and ...
Preventing Canine Separation Anxiety
by Valerie Broadway Dogs are social beings and most of them feel some sort of stress when left alone. Dogs may whine and mope as they wait for the return of their human pack members, and that’s the extent of ...
Going Plant-Based for Your Health: Lifestyle Risks Drop Fast
by Karen Pullen At the risk of sounding like a broken record…wait, that idiom is based on a disappearing technology! OK, I do repeat the same message each month in this column. Eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet is the best ...
Our Plastic Kitchen
by Robin Thomas Plastics and microplastics have polluted the entire planet, from Arctic snow and Alpine soils to the deepest oceans. People are also known to consume them via food and water, and to breathe them in, but the complete ...
Meditation, Easy as 1-2-3
by Tim Keim Meditation is often seen as some mystical, unattainable state of mind meant only for the few who have the aptitude for such mental skill and facility. This is simply false. Meditation has been and continues to be ...
132 Cans of Beans and Other Lessons in Behavioral Finance
by David Jester, CSRIC A little over a year ago, you may remember, things changed. We’d heard about a virus. It was getting worse. We were unsure of how bad it could be. We found ourselves in lockdown. We scrambled to ...
Beloved Local Arts Tradition hosts Multiple Events Across Chatham
19th Annual ClydeFEST Goes Wild If you know Chatham County, you know Clyde-FEST, the Chatham Arts Council’s annual family-friendly, old-school kids’ carnival celebrating folk artist Clyde Jones, known locally as the “critter artist.” With a pandemic still looming, this year’s festival will look ...
Chatham Literacy’s Spring Author Event
Chatham Literacy will present a Virtual Spring Author Event with Duke professor, photographer, folklorist, and author Tom Rankin and noted novelist and award-winning short story writer Jill McCorkle on Tuesday, April 20 from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Ticket sales: ...