Chatham Magazine

Healers in the Hallway

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

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

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Familiar Faces

Familiar Faces Meet Pittsboro-based painter Onicas Gaddis  By Holly West  |  Photography by Briana Brough When artist Onicas Gaddis walks up the sidewalk to The Mod on any given day, he is greeted by a chorus of “heys” and high-fives. Onicas, a Pittsboro-based painter, is well-known in the area for his art, which hangs at

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The Truck Stops Here

The Truck Stops Here   By John Cappelletti  |  Photography by Briana Brough My fondest food memory is my great-aunt Clotilda, who would make the pilgrimage from Florida every summer when I was a kid. Being part of a large Italian family, food was central to everything that we did and [every occasion we would]

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Fall Fun for Everyone

Fall Fun for Everyone Siler City’s Huckleberry Trail Farm offers disability friendly attractions  By Michele Kisthardt  |  Photography by Hillary Graves Photography When Bob Reichel and his wife, Debby, opened Huckleberry Trail Farm – which was named after Bob’s son, Robert’s (now 21) favorite bedtime story – six years ago off Route 64 in Siler

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Old School

Old School The Hamms have taught the students of Chatham County for more than 80 years  By Matt White  |  Photography by Briana Brough Every September, David and Ellen Hamm and their four daughters approach the changing season with a slightly out-of-place holiday greeting. “The first day of school is our ‘Happy New Year’,” says

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Old School

Old School The Hamms have taught the students of Chatham County for more than 80 years  By Matt White  |  Photography by Briana Brough Every September, David and Ellen Hamm and their four daughters approach the changing season with a slightly out-of-place holiday greeting. “The first day of school is our ‘Happy New Year’,” says

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Headlights in the Moonlight

Headlights in the Moonlight (published in Chatham Magazine in Fall 2017)   A challenging trail near Briar Chapel beckons brave riders   By Matt White  |  Photography by Briana Brough   In 30 minutes,darkness will have fallen over the pine straw-trimmed lawns and neat sidewalks of the Briar Chapel, but as Tamara Sanders sits in

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Plan Bee

Plan Bee With the pollinators’ numbers in decline, more than 200 of our neighbors are on a mission to protect the secret life of bees.  By Chantal Allam  |  Photography by Nina Merklina John Strickland became a beekeeper as a simple favor for his neighbor. “[My neighbor] had a hive of bees and was getting up in age,” he

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