Ivy Ruth Taylor

Ivy Ruth Taylor

In lieu of a formal introduction, please let this suffice for now: Chapel Hill, meet Ivy Ruth Taylor; Dr. Taylor, meet Chapel Hill. You’ll want to know each other. Leadership transitions at UNC bring with them a significant impact on the townspeople, business,...
Mama Dip’s Closes

Mama Dip’s Closes

Earlier this summer 2024, Mildred “Dip” Council’s children announced they will be closing the restaurant in mid-August after forty-eight years of service. The Council children make up the core of the staff, and many of them are approaching retirement age. Mama Dip’s...
Midway Barber Shop

Midway Barber Shop

Step Edwards has operated Chapel Hill Barber shop for most of his life. He still rents the building on Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill, but due to COVID’s hit on small businesses, the family had to sell the building that’s been with the family for as long as Step can...
Celebrating Mildred Council’s 95th Birthday

Celebrating Mildred Council’s 95th Birthday

Mama Dip’s Kitchen, located at 408 W Rosemary Street in Chapel Hill, commemorated what would have been its founder Mildred Council’s 95th birthday on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The restaurant celebrated by reverting some prices to their 1976 levels,...
Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee 

Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee 

In 2023 Barbara Foushee was the first Black woman elected as mayor of Carrboro and the second Black person to hold the office.  Foushee has served on Carrboro’s town council for six years. Foushee grew up in eastern North Carolina and graduated from Saint...
Ms. Lillian Lee

Ms. Lillian Lee

Lillian Lee is one of those guardians of the Chapel Hill community who puts her arms around the town’s soul, holds its close and tries to protect it. And she’s done an amazing job. In 1965, during her husband Howard’s graduate school years, she joined a colleague —...