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Chatham Christmas Recipes

Two Pittsboro bakers – Wendy Tomblin of The Country Bakeress and Danielle Rose of Carolina Cravings – share a special holiday recipe they’re offering this season. [box] Carolina Cravings’ Gingerbread Men 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking soda 3⁄4 tsp. ground cinnamon 3⁄4 tsp. ground ginger 1⁄2 tsp. ground allspice 1⁄2 tsp. ground cloves […]

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Pint Pals

The running club at House of Hops is a chance to get fit, recharge and finish with friends and a beer BY MATT WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY BY BETH MANN   Kate DiCato is not one of those running parents you see happily pushing a stroller ahead of her as she strides along. Not that she hasn’t brought

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5 Best Bets For This Weekend 9 26 19

  Vidas de Esperanza clinic’s Kermes celebration – Saturday, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. – The Siler City clinic will hold its first community festival, with all funds going to its mission to provide free medical and dental care. Home-cooked food prepared by the clinic’s own community. Read more about the Vidas clinic and its mission in Chatham Magazine‘s feature. Mead

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#DogsOfInstagram

  By Hannah Lee   @adventuresofmollyandpickles 1,223 followers As the owner of three rescue dogs – Molly, Pickles and Jupiter (left and top of page) – and a volunteer at Farm Friends Rescue, Mandy German has long supported animal shelters/rescues. Near the end of 2017, she heard about a nonpro t called Pearls for Pups Co.

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Jenny Garrett McLaurin

The Goldsmith By Matt White | Photography BY Beth Mann   Jenny Garrett McLaurin has been creating custom gold jewelry in Chatham for more than 20 years, but she’s been honing her craft for much longer than that. “My grandmother and great aunt would give me their junky costume jewelry,” Jenny says. “I would take

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Grace O’Hara

The Entrepreneur By Parrish Alto | PHOTOgraphy BY Beth Mann   Grace O’Hara was 12 in 2014 when she attended a YoungLife camp in Virginia that featured a small lake with an inflatable, trampoline-like floating platform called the “blob.” As one camper sat on the end of the blob, another would drop on the opposing

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Long before there was a Chatham Magazine, we published Durham Magazine out of a renovated office at 115 N. Duke St. in the Bull City. In 2017, another small business opened in the same spot, the vision of a man who believed in Durham’s future as much as we did. His name was Kong Lee and he called his coffee shop

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Ilana Dubester

The Goldsmith By Matt White | PHOTOgraphy BY Beth Mann Soon after arriving in Siler City in 1991, Ilana Dubester found herself in line at a pharmacy behind an Hispanic woman who was holding a crying baby and stretching her limited English with the pharmacist. “Being a nosy person, I butted in,” says Ilana, who

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