Hillsborough News

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BY BETH VELLIQUETTE bvelliquette@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6632 HILLSBOROUGH - Ryan Turner hops in his electric car each morning in Raleigh and drives to Chapel Hill on a single charge.

Students returned to Scroggs Elementary School Tuesday morning with a message that school is safe despite a fatal shooting outside the school.

By Christina Holder news@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6630 DURHAM - The Rev. Dwyian Davis of Durham's Christian Living and Learning Center remembers growing up in the neighborhood near Maplewood Cemetery.

By Jason Hawkins Special to The Chapel Hill Herald For Sharon Wheeler, the road from Hamlet to Hillsborough was one of many colors.

By Henry Werrell news@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6630 CHAPEL HILL - The Inter-City Visit and Leadership Conference will bring together leaders of the greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro community to learn from the experiences and inner workings of another community, as well as build a stronger relationship between these two communities.

Historic Forrest-Cheek House Priced at $645,000. This beautiful Victorian home located at 114 N. Wake St.

Martin is undertaking a multi-faceted mission with The City Project that will lead him from inner-city ministry and theological studies in Durham to an outreach ministry in New York and to communities and villages in Kenya.

"That failed attempt to capture reality talks about the limits of representation.

By Jason Hawkins news@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6630 They have light bulbs, bison steaks, nails, peanuts, onion slips, root beer on ice, inside an old cooler, fresh-baked chocolate brownies, fishhooks, gas cans, bolts, feed for chickens, feed for horses, feed for people, and worms to fish with.

Ray Motor Company is pleased to announce its latest arrival, the 2013 Ford Edge.

To sign up for home delivery, visit http://coonrockfarm.com/csa/. Coon Rock Farm delivers produce, vegetables, meat and eggs throughout the Triangle area, including, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Apex, Garner, Cary, Wake Forest, Holly Springs, Morrisville, Fuquay-Varina, Louisburg and Hillsborough.

On Sunday evening, hundreds of residents from all over Orange County and throughout the entire Triangle gathered at the WC Breeze Family Farm Agricultural Extension for an evening of local food and fun.

A N.C. Highway Historical Marker for a Revolutionary War general and former Orange County sheriff will be dedicated on Saturday, May 19, at 11:30 a.m.A When John Butler became sheriff in 1770, he represented the authority of the Crown at a time when settlers in what was then North Carolina's backcountry wanted none of it.

The town of Hillsborough is hosting its 30th Annual Hog Day weekend Friday and Saturday featuring live music, entertainment, and 4,000 pounds of barbecue.

Hillsborough 's annual Hog Day festival will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in the River Park, 140 E. Margaret Lane behind the courthouse in downtown Hillsborough.

By a 4-3 vote, county commissioners adopted the Orange County Transit Plan on Tuesday, but not without several hours of heated debate.

A walking group for women age 55 and older treks the Bolin Creek Greenway on Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m. 919-967-4054, walkingforwomen@gmail.com. Story time and craft activity for children will be held at The Children's Store, 243 S. Elliott Road, every Wednesday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. 919-942-8027, thechildrensstoreinc.com . Cornucopia House Cancer ... (more)

For reasons we can’t explain, the State Mammal of North Carolina is not the pig .

Three secondary school instructors who challenged, inspired and moved members of Amherst College's Class of 2012 will be honored with the Phebe and Zephaniah Swift Moore Teaching Awards during the school's 191st commencement exercises, which begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday.