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CHAPEL HILL — The recess bell rings at North Chatham Elementary and the 2nd graders in Susana Negroni’s class bolt out the classroom door and onto the playground.

Some gather for a game of tag near the slide and others congregate at the swing set. But for many of the rest, there’s a new favorite activity: gardening.

The North Chatham Elementary Parent Teacher Association opened a community garden on campus, just off Lystra Road, in April. Since it first broke ground, the students and parent vo

The longtime Chatham County School Board Dist. 3 incumbent Del Turner, who has been on the board since 2010, faces a challenge from Jessica Winger, a Chatham County Schools parent and substitute teacher calling for more transparency from the board.

The race has brought sharp focus on issues such as Critical Race Theory, parent oversight in curriculum and school safety to the local stage. Bigger-than-usual donations, advertisements and social media posts have also swirled around the election, wh

We don’t have time to politicize our classrooms but outside people are doing that for us.”

A collection of documents from a recent training program for teachers and administrators in Chatham County Schools recently made the rounds on social media.

The training, held last month, was meant to help teachers understand equity and race as part of improving inclusivity efforts in the classroom — but instead it sparked claims that CCS is teaching CRT, or Critical Race Theory, to students.

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“Our community is fortunate to have had great ownership [of the CAM site] that has stayed with us over time, to win this project,” said Michael Smith. “They have had other opportunities to do other things with that site ... It’s all because of having an owner like that who knows what he’s doing and has been committed to making this happen.”

She said she hopes these companies also foster relationships with public institutions like CCCC and Chatham County Schools to help foster the next generatio