VOLUME 147 ISSUE 16 | THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2024
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Webb in his happy place Golf’s top players converge on Pinehurst No. 2 for this week’s U.S. Open, and N.C. native and 2012 winner Webb Simpson will look to make magic at “his favorite place.” Turn to NSJ Sports, B4
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Petey Pablo heads N.C. Music Hall of Fame inductees The North Carolina Music Hall of Fame will have six more members later this year after the organization announced its 2024 inductees. “Raise Up” artist Petey Pablo, Clarence Avant, Mary Cardwell Dawson, Tommy Faile, Bobby Hicks and independent label Merge Records will be honored at an event in October.
Bill for ‘forever chemicals’ manufacturers to pay N.C. water systems advances An effort to order manufacturers of “forever chemicals” to help NC public water systems pay for upgrades to remove contaminants that a company discharged has been renewed in the General Assembly. The House Environment Committee voted Tuesday for the measure pushed by Republican lawmakers from the Wilmington area. That’s where longtime upstream discharges of a kind of substance called PFAS into the Cape Fear River have contributed to public utilities spending large amounts to filter them out. Scientific evidence of PFAS harms to humans have accumulated. The bill certainly could affect The Chemours Co., which runs a plant that had discharged PFAS for decades. A similar bill was debated in 2022.
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Local American Legion posts went head to head in a baseball battle, with Chatham Post 292 facing off with Randolph Post 45 in the rain at McCrary Park in Asheboro last Thursday. Here, Chatham’s Simon Delgado knocks a single. For more sports, turn to page B1
Chatham Schools expand athletic opportunities for homeschoolers The new policy will require students to be dual enrolled in CCS By Ryan Henkel Chatham News & Record YONAT SHIMRON / RELIGION NEWS SERVICE VIA AP
Fire Truck Festival set for June 22 The Fire Truck Festival returns to the N.C. Transportation Museum in Spencer on June 22. A variety of both antique and modernday fire trucks will be on display for exploring and photos. Representatives from a number of fire and ambulances services will be on hand to showcase the jaws of life, a firefighter costume contest for kids and more. The festival starts at 9 a.m. and concludes with a fire truck parade at 3:30 p.m. Tickets start at $18 for adults, $16 for seniors and military, and $14 for children 3-12, including a train ride.
Youth feed lettuce to goats at Spring Forest farm in Hillsborough.
PITTSBORO — The Chatham County Schools Board of Education met last Monday, June 3, for its monthly meeting. It announced an update to district policy on Extra Cur-
ricular Activities and Student Organizations to allow homeschool students to participate in school athletics, so long as they are dual enrolled with Chatham County Schools. Students are considered enrolled if they are taking at least two classes, generally through the Chatham County Schools Virtual Academy. “We usually have a fall and a winter and a spring update,
With strawberries and goats, a ‘farmastery’ reaches out to its neighbors US Open returns to Pinehurst By Yonat Shimron Religion News Service / AP HILLSBOROUGH — On a warm, sunny morning in farm country, a group of 40 preschoolers and their parents fanned out across several rows of crops to pluck strawberries from beneath crowns of green leaves. Later, the children sliced the berries they had gathered and added bananas, kale and yogurt to blend into smoothies before heading out to feed chickens and goats. They then strolled
through a wooded trail (spotted a turtle!) and took turns at a pair of swings hanging from a tree. The morning concluded with an outdoor lunch prepared by a dietitian and chef. The outing Wednesday morning (May 29) was part of a wellness program called Grow It, one of several offered to young families living in North Carolina’s Triangle region by Spring Forest, a farm and new monastic community, or “farmastery.” See FARMASTERY, page A12
No. 2 course hosts its fourth major in 25 years By Shawn Krest Chatham News & Record PINEHURST — Once again, the golf world comes to Pinehurst. The club’s famed No. 2 course will play host to the 2024 U.S. Open this week, with 156 of the best golfers in the world playing for one of the coveted major titles.
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This is the 124th U.S. Open. The tournament began play in 1895 and was not held for a total of six years during the See U.S. OPEN, page A3
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