We'll cover the most groanworthy coverage in the fishwraps -- some rather uneven treatment of Durham's 2007-2008 growth in everyone's favorite Raleigh paper -- later this morning at BCR. For now, the rest of the news:
- NCCU celebrated the centennial of the signing of its charter yesterday, a ceremony replete with a recreation of the event's occurance, and the return of a septagenerian alum who rang the campus bell on schedule four to five times a day -- an occurance he notes didn't make him Mr. Popular in the neighboring residence halls. Central chancellor Charlie Nelms noted the bravery and audacity of James Shepard and others who founded what became the nation's first publicly-supported liberal arts college for African-Americans at a time when lynchings were an all-too-common occurance in the American South, and where education was the right most denied to blacks. (H-S #1, #2; N&O)
- Lincoln Community Health Center will receive $1.3 million in stimulus funds allocated to community health clinics; the funds will be used to renovate the center, which replaced the historically-black Lincoln Hospital after the merger of Watts Hospital and Lincoln in the 1970s. (H-S)
- Though the measure in the General Assembly to give the Triangle and Triad a local-option half-cent sales tax for transit still is perceived to have an excellent chance at passage, the bill is mired in a debate with rural interests over whether those counties should be able to vote in a quarter-cent tax for transit in their areas. A Senate hearing on the bill was delayed yesterday so that Durham state Sen. Floyd McKissick, Jr. could work back-channels to try to resolve the sticking points on the bill. (H-S)
- The old Holton School in east Durham is still on track for an August opening. The third floor will house vo-tech classes for high school students in fields from construction to machinery to landscaping; the second floor will house a Durham Parks & Rec center with a gym, computer lab and more. And Duke University will take the first floor for a wellness center in partnership with Lincoln, sez the N&O. (The Durham News)
- There's no new news on the Black Meadow Ridge site adjacent to the Eno River, the parcel at the center of last year's firestorm over whether the City should transfer West Point Park to the state so that state government could buy up the 60-acre BMR parcel and merge both with the Eno River State Park. No surprise, given how bad the state budget situation has become. (TDN)
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