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Kid-mmunity outreach Chatham County Sheriff K-9 Uno dressed up as Batman — Bat-dog? — to greet kids and parents at the Siler City Trunk or Treat last Friday. In a post on Facebook, K-9 Uno encouraged everyone to “stay pawsitive, keep smiling, and don’t forget: not all heroes wear capes… some wear collars.”
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Commissioners table decision on BRIEF this week potential 500-acre major development Republicans send Biden autopen report to Justice Department, urge investigations House Republicans have released a long-promised report on former President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen and the alleged cover-up of his mental state while in office. Tuesday’s report issues a scathing critique of Biden’s team but cites largely public information and no specific instances of illegal activity to back up the report’s explosive conclusions. While Republicans did not cite a specific case of the autopen being misused in the Biden White House, they called all actions taken by the previous administration void. Congressional Republicans also sent letters to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the D.C. Board of Medicine calling for further investigations into Biden’s former aides and his doctor.
Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with Wikipedia Elon Musk has launched Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia that the billionaire seeks to position as a rival to Wikipedia. Musk announced on social media that “Grokipedia.com version 0.1 is now live” and promised further improvements. The site aims to present “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” Grokipedia currently has a minimalist design with a search bar and claims to have more than 885,000 articles. Unlike Wikipedia, which relies on volunteers, it’s unclear how Grokipedia’s content is created.
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The proposed Reeves Farm development could have up to 1,700 residences By Ryan Henkel Chatham News & Record PITTSBORO — The Town of Pittsboro Board of Commissioners has opted to push off a decision on another potential major development project.
At its Oct. 13 meeting, the board held public hearings for multiple items related to the Reeves Farm development, a 500-acre neighborhood mixed-use project located along U.S. Highway 64 West. The board first held a hearing for the voluntary annexation of the property, however, the board approved it only on the condition that the development agreement was approved as well.
“The development agreement is required in this particular instance because of a condition that you all put on the rezoning of this property back in 2023 that says prior to the site plan or preliminary subdivision approval, the applicant is supposed to submit and obtain the approval of a development agreement,”
By Ryan Henkel Chatham News & Record SILER CITY — The Town of Siler City Board of Commis-
sioners dealt with a handful of subdivision items at its most recent meeting. At its Oct. 20 meeting, the board held three public hearings, with the first being for major modifications to a previously approved conditional zoning for approximately 177 acres of property located on West Third
Street, otherwise known as the Fox Haven subdivision. The prior rezoning request was approved on April 17, 2023, changing the zoning district from Agricultural and Residential to a conditional Residential zoning, with the original plan being to construct 776 dwelling units split amongst detached
When the government shutdown will affect SNAP, Head Start, military pay
42M Americans who use SNAP to supplement their grocery bills.
This week could be a tough one for those who rely on the government By Meg Kinnard The Associated Press WITH THE federal government shutdown nearing the one-month mark, Americans are starting to see the cascading effects of programs shuttered by lapses in federal funding. Some states are scrambling to find ways to account for shortfalls in food and child development assistance, and members
Commissioner John Foley on receiving an amended agreement just hours before the board’s meeting
See PITTSBORO, page A3
Siler City makes decisions on two subdivisions, delays third The commissioners voted to table a rezoning request for a potential 371 units
“We meet once a month, and this is entirely unacceptable.”
of the military are also about to miss their first paychecks. Some federal workers have already gone without pay for weeks. But nearly a month in, reserves that had kept some programs afloat since the shutdown began are dwindling, meaning new layers of complications as Congress remains unable to reach a new agreement to fund the federal government. A look at what millions of Americans can expect this week. See SNAP, page A7
single-family homes, multifamily townhomes and apartments. The proposed changes, however, include the removal of the 288 planned multifamily apartments, instead replacing the units in that area of the plan with detached single-family dwellings. This change also lowers the density per acre from 4.4 dwelling units to 3.2 and places the total proposed dwelling units at 560 between the detached single-family units and multifamily townhomes. See SILER CITY, page A3