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Downtown Durham Feast Sets Tables on July 15
Downtown Durham Inc. is hosting the Downtown Durham Feast month, inviting everyone to enjoy the vibrant local food and drink scene. Participants can enter to win a weekly grand prize of a $100 SpendaBull e-gift card, accepted by more than 60 downtown merchants. Drawing Schedule: How to Enter: From July 15 to Aug. 11, patrons…
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South Durham Food Recall Alerts [July 6, 2024]
Viva Raw Pet Food Viva Raw LLC is voluntarily recalling several dog and cat foods due to potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The recall includes Viva Turkey for Dogs Ground, Viva Turkey for Dogs Chunked, Viva Turkey for Cats, Viva Pure Turkey, and Viva Beef & Turkey for Puppies, all manufactured under Lot 21244. This contamination…
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Support South Durham Local News as a Founding Sponsor
Are you a business owner looking to connect with a dedicated and engaged community in South Durham? Here’s an opportunity to make a lasting impact and grow your brand by becoming a Founding Sponsor of Southpoint Access, an ultra-local news site committed to informing our neighbors about what matters most to them. By signing on…
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Grants Available for Durham Cultural Festivals
Starting July 8, festival and event organizers can apply to receive some of the $295,000 that’s available from the City of Durham to support qualified new or existing arts and cultural festivals or special events to be held in the city or county. The application window opens at 11:59 p.m. on July 8 and ends…
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Child Safety Recalls [July 2024]
Recent recalls have been issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for products due to child safety hazards: SWOMOG Children’s Two-Piece Pajama Sets About 27,400 units of SWOMOG children’s two-piece pajama sets sold in satin and ribbed modal fabrics are being recalled because they violate federal flammability standards for children’s sleepwear, posing a burn…
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[Nerdspresso] It’s Hot Outside, but Movies are Always Cool
Well, bust out the hot dogs and the sunscreen, it’s summertime! School is out, the temps are hot and according to that old song, it’s summertime and the living is easy. For those who celebrate, summertime is vacations, swimming pools and movie stars. And for those that don’t, it just means going to work when…
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Heat and Storms Have Durham on Alert
The National Weather Service is warning of a return of hot conditions, as well as threatening storms, on this Independence Day. According to an advisory released early Thursday, high temperatures are expected in the mid to upper 90s, with heat index values as high as 105 degrees. Also, scattered thunderstorms between 4 and 9 p.m.…
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Public Food Waste Containers Ready for Durham Resident Use
Got food scraps that should be converted to compost but don’t have the means to accomplish that at home? The City of Durham has opened two pilot locations with bins for Durham residents to drop off their scraps, extending beyond an initial rollout of limited curbside collections. Collected food waste will go to the North…
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Onsemi Acquires Durham High-Tech Imaging Company
ON Semiconductor Corporation (Onsemi), an Arizona-based semiconductor supplier, this week announced the acquisition of SWIR Vision Systems in Research Triangle Park. SWIR provides CQD (colloidal quantum-dot based) short wavelength infrared technology that can extend the detectable light spectrum to see through objects and capture images not previously possible. “The integration of this patented technology within…
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South Durham Farmers’ Market Finds New Home
The South Durham Farmers’ Market makes its debut in a new location on Saturday, July 6, offering fresh produce, meats and dairy products, handcrafted items and more at Hub RTP in Research Triangle Park after years in a strip mall parking lot off NC Highway 55. New Location Details “We are excited to put down…
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Durham City Manager Plans Retirement in December
Wanda Page, the current city manager, expects to end her career with the City of Durham in December after 36 years of service. She told Mayor Leonardo Williams and City Council members in a July 1 email that “now is the right moment to begin the transition of passing the torch to new leadership and…
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Durham Public Schools Graduating Students of 2024
More than 2,400 students graduated from high schools in the Durham Public Schools system this academic year between Aug. 7, 2023, and June 30, 2024. Of those, 526 had at least one opt-out on file, preventing their inclusion in media releases. So, what follows is a list of 1,905 graduating students made available to Southpoint…
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