Summer may be fading, but healthy and fresh food options are bountiful at our local farmers markets. We talked to the managers of the county’s four markets, who told us what to expect over the next few months and offered some of their favorite recipes and foods. CHATHAM MILLS FARMERS MARKET With […]
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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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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
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
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
Elly Cummins and Bridget O’Donnell want to increase awareness of the 911 Good Samaritan Law in memory of their brothers, Boone Cummins and Sean O’Donnell. Two sisters fight for awareness of the life-saving “911 Good Samaritan” law in memory of their brothers By Matt White | Photography by Beth Mann B ridget O’Donnell doesn’t have
Four athletes share how they use sport to stay active By Matt White | Photography by Beth Mann heavy lifting [dropcap]A[/dropcap] little more than a year ago, Michelle Danielle Jordan, seeking a new fitness routine, opened Google and typed in “sports with weights.” She discovered powerlifting. After a few articles and videos, she couldn’t wait to
Our list of not-to-be-missed kids activities that the whole family can enjoy By Matt White | Photo By Andrea & Marcus Anderson A great benefit of living in Chatham is the variety of youth sports available for any ability level. Beginners are welcome on all Chatham County Parks & Recreation teams, including softball, T-ball, track and
Distiller, Fair Game Beverage Co. By hannah Lee | PHOTOgraphy BY Beth Mann When Rose Dyer realized the 9-to-5 work life of a chemistry lab was not for her, she dropped out of her chemical engineering program at NC State University to pursue another calling for her love of math and science: distilling. In April
