Get Growing Student-run spring plant sale provides a temporary garden center for Bear Creek By Holly West | Photography by Hillary graves One chilly afternoon in mid-February, classmates Andrew Hicks and Dylan Lee were transferring sprouts of budding herbs, flowers and other plants from small trays, called cell packs, into larger pots. The […]
All In The Same Boat The Stafford family has been boating on Jordan Lake since 2003. Just 10 minutes from their home, the”Hot Now” houseboat provides a mini-vacation every time they leave the dock. Photography by Briana Brough ABOVE: Cas Stafford, (right, with friend Kirsten Moore) says that Jordan Lake is her happy place.
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Living in Governors Club One of our original planned communities evolves as new families arrive By matt white On a recent Wednesday night, Trey and RamonaLisa Robertson and their daughter Emily, 10, arrived at the front door of the Governors Club main clubhouse for what’s become a weekly routine: Governors Club kids night. Governors Club,
‘I try to keep the poultry off the swingset’ Mackenzie Withington, owner of Lilly Den Farm and manager of the Pittsboro Farmers Market, talks homesteading, homeschooling and how she does it all From Big City to 10 Acres “I’m actually from New York City. When I met [husband and New York dairy farmer]
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Fitness through Fellowship F3 is an early-morning, men-only fitness group where members build muscles and connections By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough At 41 degrees, the mid-January morning feels almost balmy. Seven days before, when the dozen or so men of the F3 fitness group arrived at Page Vernon Park at the north end
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Faster, Ladies! The ever-changing ‘Booty Buster’ class gives a 5 a.m. troupe of women an opportunity to forge personal connections and strengthen abs By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough On a Saturday morning, just inside the red brick front of Ladies’ Fitness Center of Pittsboro, the music was loud and Kelly Bolejack,
Strong Foundation from parent volunteer to director By Matt White Jaime Detzi is the executive director of the Chatham Education Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy and fundraising organization that administers early literacy, teacher support and other educational programs in schools across Chatham. Jaime is in her fifth year as head of the foundation, which this summer
Artist and Residence Mark and Carol Hewitt built a famed pottery studio and a home on their Pittsboro property By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough When Carol Hewitt and her husband Mark moved from New England to the end of Johnny Burke Road in 1983, they came for two reasons – and
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Healers in the Hallway Meet three nurses at Chatham County Schools By Holly West | Photography by Briana Brough With 18 schools to serve, the seven nurses of Chatham County Schools are always on the move. Each person is tasked with taking care of hundreds of students, providing care that ranges from administering daily medicines
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Translating Hope Ascary Arias offers the Latino community quality health and dental care with Vidas De Esperanza clinic in Siler City This story was originally published in the December/January 2018 issue of Chatham Magazine By Matt White | Photography by Briana Brough Elba Aguirre Moscoso and her daughter, Heidi, 11, sit quietly in the
