by Admin | Aug 11, 2024 | STORIES
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...
by Admin | Aug 11, 2024 | STORIES
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...
by Admin | Apr 17, 2024 | STORIES
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,...
by Admin | Mar 12, 2024 | STORIES
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...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2023 | STORIES
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 —...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2023 | STORIES
One of the great moments in civil rights history took place in Chapel Hill on May 6th, 1969. That’s when Howard N. Lee was elected mayor of this town. In so doing, he became the first African American elected mayor in a predominantly white southern town since...
