VOLUME 148 ISSUE 26 | THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025
CHATHAMNEWSRECORD.COM
THE CHATHAM COUNTY EDITION OF NORTH STATE JOURNAL
GENE GALIN FOR CHATHAM NEWS & RECORD
Ready to go Chatham Central and Northwood faced off in the Jack Shaner Jamboree on Saturday, the final tuneup ahead of Week 1 action. For more, turn to Page B1.
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Conservancy at Jordan Lake petitioning BRIEF this week for expanded wastewater services First domino in national redistricting fight likely to fall with Texas GOP poised for vote on maps Texas’ Republican-led legislature is expected to approve new congressional maps that add five new House seats that the GOP could win. The extraordinary move expected Wednesday comes at President Donald Trump’s urging. Trump wants to stave off Republicans losing control of the House of Representatives in next year’s midterms. Texas Democratic state lawmakers delayed the vote by fleeing the state, but enough returned this week for the body to reconvene. The GOP House speaker assigned around-the-clock police monitors to Democrats to make sure they don’t flee again. One state representative spent Monday night and Tuesday in the Texas House rather than agree to a monitor and was joined by other Democrats in protest.
Gabbard revokes security clearances of 37 current, former government officials The Trump administration says it’s revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials. A memo posted Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accused the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals. It also accuses them of failing to safeguard classified information.
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The subdivision’s wastewater treatment plant currently can only service homes in the community By Ryan Henkel Chatham News & Record PITTSBORO — The Chatham County Board of Commissioners held a few different public hearings at its Aug. 18 meeting, including a request
for expanded wastewater treatment services. The first hearing was for a rezoning request for approximately 21 acres of property located within the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision from residential to light industrial to al-
low for the expanded use of the subdivision’s wastewater treatment plant. The Conservancy at Jordan Lake was a conservation subdivision that was approved by the board in March 2022, and along with that, the approved plans allowed for the construction of a wastewater treatment plant. “When this project start-
NC updates more than 20,000 voter records, seeks more ID numbers Some voters have been asked to help complete their records By Gary D. Robertson The Associated Press RALEIGH — Voter registration records for more than 20,000 people in North Car-
olina have been successfully amended thus far in an effort by election officials to add missing identification numbers. In mid-July, the State Board of Elections began formally an
effort that seeks to resolve a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department that focused on voter registration records that lacked either a voter’s driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number. Federal and state laws have directed that election officials must re-
Democrats look to new crop of candidates to win back US House In Trump country, the party is recruiting locals who are less “academic” By Joey Cappellitti The Associated Press FAIRVIEW — Jamie Ager has spent much of the past year rebuilding his farm in the foothills of western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene tore through the region, cutting power, destroying fences and scattering livestock. Then earlier this year, Ager lost his beef contract with local schools, a casualty of billions of dollars in cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the Trump administration.
Now the fifth-generation farmer is running for Congress — part of a new crop of Democratic candidates the party is turning to as it tries to compete in the tough, often rural districts it may need to flip to retake the U.S. House in 2026. Democrats say these new recruits are uniquely suited to break through in districts where President Donald Trump’s popularity dominates. Many, like Ager, are already a well-known presence in their communities. And in parts of North Carolina, Kentucky, Michigan and elsewhere, the party is betting local credibility can cut through skepticism where the See DEMS, page A7
“The execution of a lot of those ideas has been gummed up, you know, not well executed.” Jamie Ager, U.S. House candidate
ed, their wastewater treatment plant was, and continues to be, internal to the development,” said Zoning Administrator Angela Plummer. “The first phase of that treatment facility is underway.” To allow for the wastewater treatment plant to serve parcels outside of the conservation See LAKE, page A3
quest this ID information since 2004 of new registrants, but for about a decade the state’s registration form failed to make clear that voters were supposed to provide it if they had it. A “Registration Repair Project” supported by the now Republican-controlled state board — flipped from a Democratic majority in the spring — created a public online database with the names of 103,270 registrants the lacking the numerical identifiers. They were asked See RECORDS, page A3