Joel Brown
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Durham's $750,000 bet on small businesses Is paying off, county says (opens the original)
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DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Federal COVID relief money has been dogged by stories of waste and fraud across the country. But in Durham, county leaders say a small-business recovery program did exactly what it was supposed to do. Two years ago, Durham County commissioners launched "Durham Rising," putting $750,000 in federal American Rescue Plan money into the hands of a local nonprofit, Knox St. Studios. The mission: help small businesses hit hard by the pandemic get back on their feet. Knox St. Stud
In a Raleigh juice bar, healing looks like an open mic (opens the original)
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's not a Bible study. But on Tuesday and Thursday nights at Juiced, a smoothie bar tucked into the city's Washington Terrace neighborhood, something that feels spiritual is happening. Drums echo through the small space. A crowd gathers around a makeshift stage. And one by one, people who've survived shootings, prison, addiction and abuse stand up and tell the room exactly what they've been through. "I sat on my altar, asked my ancestors to give me an answer," poet Imaja
NC Made: At a Chapel Hill farm, the world's longest-running progressive rock festival endures (opens the original)
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Twice a year, fans of a genre most people can't quite define pack into folding chairs and tents on a farm between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. They come from Detroit, from Maryland, from Northern Virginia - and the bands come from even farther, sometimes as far as Sweden, Italy or Venezuela. The festival is called ProgDay. Thirty-one years after it started, it's now the longest continuously running progressive rock festival in the world. "It's all stuff that doesn't soun
New voting site leaves NC State students with a longer walk -- and a divided elections board (opens the original)
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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Election season at North Carolina State University has become a flashpoint in a larger fight about who controls where and how people vote, after a new state law shifted authority of county elections boards from the governor to the state auditor. Since 2018, NC State's Talley Student Union has served as an early voting site for Wake County, sitting at the heart of the Raleigh campus. This year, the Wake County Board of Elections voted to move the polling place out of Talle
Cary author's debut novel features real-life 9/11 hero and a childhood keepsake that connects them (opens the original)
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CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Patrick Stapleton was a pre-teen New Yorker when the towers fell on September 11, 2001. Two years before that day, a 10-year-old Patrick stood on the sidelines of a Boston College lacrosse game - and walked away with an autographed ball from one of the team's senior players. Stapleton kept the ball in a case in his childhood bedroom for years, not yet understanding the hero Crowther would become - or the lasting mark he would leave on Stapleton's life. "I see on my dresser t
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