28th Annual Post Best Banquet

Local

Durham City Council delays Hayti rezoning vote

Thursday, June 19, 2025

By Alex Bass

Left to right: Henry McKoy, the Rev. Julian Pridgen, Jamie Schwedler and Floyd McKissick Jr. DURHAM – The Durham City Council approving a $750 million-plus budget was easier than organizing an in-person meeting with diverse stakeholders Monday night. The Hayti rezoning proposal was brought before the Council when the meeting resumed at 9:05 p.m.,

Read More

Grant Street’s leading ladies realize landmark groundbreaking

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

By Alex Bass

Grant Street groundbreaking. DURHAM – Grant Street resident Joanne Gunn Brown and former Durham city manager Tom Bonfield were absent from the named location June 13. Still, Brown’s research and request - the latter granted by Bonfield in 2018 - was realized last week on that very street. The Durham Community Land Trustees broke ground at

Read More

Raleigh Chick-Fil-A owner sets community service tone

Thursday, June 12, 2025

By Alex Bass

Donovan Carless and his employees. RALEIGH – Donovan Carless finally earned the opportunity to open and lead his first freestanding Chick-Fil-A restaurant last June. He is back home in Raleigh, where he graduated from Sanderson High School in 1996, and met his wife, Nikki, while working in another Chick-Fil-A establishment. The couple is

Read More

‘I want him to be better than me’

Thursday, June 12, 2025

By Alex Bass

Jameson and Tyrone Basden. RALEIGH – Everyone at the North Carolina Fatherhood Conference luncheon felt it was perfectly fine for Tyrone Basden to be almost speechless after being named the 2025 father of the year. Basden’s son, Jameson, had spoken volumes while sharing his essay about his Dad. “The way he lives his life teaches me

Read More

Raleigh man shares life story to steer youth on right path

Thursday, June 12, 2025

By Freda Freeman, Correspondent

Sean Ingram, orange shirt, and mentees. Sean Ingram, of Knightdale, uses himself as an example to help youth who are heading down the wrong path. Ingram, 48, grew up in Wilson, where he was raised by his grandmother. His mother was on drugs, and his father was in prison. Like his grandmother, Ingram worked in tobacco fields most of his life. Tired of

Read More

Suit filed, meeting with RPD chief declined by Mason family

Thursday, June 5, 2025

By Alex Bass

RALEIGH – An invitation from Raleigh Police Chief Rico Boyce to meet with Henrietta Mason and her lawyers was declined. Mason’s son, Tyrone Mason, 31, died in an Oct. 7 road accident. “I didn’t feel it right or proper,” said attorney Bakari Sellers, a member of Henrietta Mason’s legal team. Sellers, in conjunction with

Read More

Bull City Future Fund shares $300K in youth programming grants

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

By Alex Bass

DURHAM – Durham Mayor Leo Williams, after attending to other municipal duties Tuesday, needed only to see the end of the inaugural Bull City Future Fund Celebration on CCB Plaza to be fulfilled. The celebration’s primary component included the presentation of more than $300,000 in one-time grants to 15 Bull City nonprofit organizations

Read More

DPS and DAE set to ‘meet and confer’

Thursday, May 29, 2025

By Alex Bass

DURHAM – Durham Public Schools made history Tuesday as North Carolina’s first local education agency to adopt a “meet and confer” policy. This policy allows employee stakeholders to participate in front-end collaborative conversation concerning the local education agency’s personnel policies and practices. “When we have

Read More