Former Northwood football star
Brendan Harrington received an honor prior to his nal college season. The senior linebacker for Appalachian State was one of the players chosen for the East-West Shrine Bowl watch list. The Shrine Bowl is a showcase game for NFL Draft prospects following their college careers. Read more on Harrington on B1.
Tropical storm could bring 6 to 8 inches of rain
With a half-foot or more of rain expected in the next few days, preparing for potential evacuations or power outages is essential. Emergency o cials suggest the following simple steps to make sure you’re prepared: Make a plan: Outline a communications and evacuation plan for your family. If you have any pets or livestock, include them in your plan.
Assemble an emergency kit: It should include a three-day supply of nonperishable food, water and medication, as well as any other items you might need in case of a power outage, such as a ashlight, radio and batteries.
Charge your cell phone: This will allow you to stay connected to emergency and safety updates even if the power goes out.
Secure outdoor items: Safely store lawn furniture, decorations, toys, garbage cans and other items that can be brought indoors. Tie down larger objects like boats and trailers.
Fuel up: Fill vehicles before the storm as a loss of power could put gas pumps out of commission.
Chatham emergency operations to open for Debby
The Chatham County Emergency Operations Center plans to open Thursday morning with limited sta ng, the county announced Wednesday. The county does not plan to open emergency shelters or distribution points based on the current forecast but is monitoring river and lake levels as well as the status of dams in the region. O cials are considering the closure of county-maintained Haw River access points depending on river conditions and will issue notices to communities at risk of isolation due to ooding. Chatham County also has other teams and resources ready to be deployed to impacted communities outside the county.
Biden signs NC disaster declaration
Federal assistance is now available to many counties, including Chatham.
Bryson City native Evy Leibfarth won bronze for the United States in the women’s canoe single competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in France. Above right, Leibfarth, in pink, also competed in the women’s kayak cross nals.
Much of North Carolina is under a ood watch
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C. —
Tropical Storm Debby is taking a breather Wednesday over
the western Atlantic Ocean but it isn’t done dousing the coastal Carolinas before it slowly marches north.
Debby was expected to restrengthen and turn north toward the South Carolina coastline for a second landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday,
force justi ed in shooting of man who killed
A report said there was “no question” deadly force was appropriate
By Makiya Seminera The Associated Press
RALEIGH — Law enforcement was justi ed in using deadly force against a gunman in Charlotte who fatally shot four o cers and wounded four others in April, a prosecutor concludes in a report released last week. There is “no question” that the o cers who killed Terry
Clark Hughes Jr. did so to defend themselves and others, Mecklenburg County District Attorney Spencer Merriweather says in the report. Before he was killed, Hughes, 39, opened re on o cers serving arrest warrants at his home in the city of Charlotte, the deadliest attack on law enforcement in the U.S. since 2016. “If law enforcement o cers had not responded to an imminently deadly threat with lethal force, as di cult as it is to imagine, the outcome could have
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weather o cials said. The storm carried the threat not only of additional rainfall but also of tornadoes in coastal sections of the Carolinas spreading north into southeast Virginia on Thursday.
The slow-moving storm drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina late
Monday into Tuesday, stirring up tornadoes and submerging streets with waist-high oodwaters. The storm has dropped more than a foot of rain in some places already and could dump staggering rain totals of up to 25
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Tour gets new sponsor for Quail Hollow
The tournament is one of eight events with a $20 million purse
By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press
TRUIST FINANCIAL
CORP. is taking over as title sponsor for the PGA Tour’s signature event at Quail Hollow Club with a seven-year commitment, which includes a oneyear detour in 2025 to Philadelphia Cricket Club. The deal secures top-level golf in Charlotte after Wells Fargo decided not to renew its sponsorship. The Truist Championship
will be the fourth name of the tournament that began in 2003 and immediately grew into a top tournament mainly through word-of-mouth from players who raved about Quail Hollow Club.
Quail Hollow is holding the PGA Championship for the sec-
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A German shepherd mix named Fred was the nal animal placed
By Morgan Matthews For Chatham News & Record
THE CHATHAM COUN-
TY Animal Resource Center placed 83 animals during a free adoption event last month. The shelter, part of the Chatham Sheri ’s O ce, partnered with the Bissell Pet Foundation on its annual Empty the Shelters campaign, which o ers reduced or free adoption fees for animals.
In July, some 42 dogs and 41 cats found new homes in Chatham County, with Fred, a 3-year-old German shepherd mix, the last animal to nd a home during the event. Fred was one of the longest residents of the shelter.
“While it’s hard to say goodbye to an animal we’ve grown so attached to, it’s incredibly uplifting to know that Fred and the other animals in our care found loving homes,” said Chatham Sheri ’s Capt. Stephen Renn in a press release.
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Here’s a quick look at what’s coming up in Chatham County:
Aug. 9
Teen Library Lock-in
Chatham Community Library, 197 NC-87, Pittsboro
Teens are invited to a library lock-in! Enjoy pizza and snacks, board and card games, and more. Costumes/cosplay welcome! Don’t be late! In fact, be early — doors will lock at 6:05 pm! This event will take place in the Holmes Meeting Room. Registration is required for this event. Please sign up at the Youth Services desk or call 919-545-8085. For moreinformation, youth. services@ chathamlibraries.org.
Aug. 10
Chatham Mills Farmers Market 8 a.m. – noon.
Waste Reduction Series: Waste Reduction for the Lazy (but not Apathetic)
2–4 p.m.
Chatham Community Library, 197 NC-87, Pittsboro
This class is for those seeking to reduce waste but aren’t quite ready to make large lifestyle changes. The class will provide a wide variety of tips for those looking to reduce waste in small ways that matter.
Morning in the Mud 9 a.m. – noon ClayWorx Studios, 136 Fayetteville St., Ste. G, Pittsboro
Aug. 13-15
Honeybee Paper Mache Camp
1–3 p.m.
Chatham Grove Community Center, 1301 Andrews Store Rd., Pittsboro
Find out about why honeybees are so important to our agriculture and to the food that we eat! The rst class we will construct a huge honeybee. Next, we will cover the form with paste, and nally we will have fun painting our bee. With help from an adult, hang it up on the ceiling and let it y! Complete with a tissue paper ower. Supplies included. Dress to get messy! Three class sessions.
The yearlong course aims to grow Chatham’s next generation of leaders
Chatham News & Record sta
Leadership Chatham is a signature program of the Chamber of Commerce, “designed to develop informed, skilled and involved community leaders” and giving access to experts from Chatham County. The goal is to build effective and in uential leaders
July 26
• Charles Moritz Marold III, 53, of Pittsboro, was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
• Ashley Lynn Colby Creason, 31, was arrested sell/deliver cocaine, felony possession of cocaine, and possession with intent to sell/deliver cocaine.
July 27
• Melissa Ann Smith, 36, of Pittsboro, was arrested for tra cking opium or heroin.
• Glen Paul Guido, 61, of Pittsboro, was arrested for assault on a female and assault on a child under 12.
July 28
• Isaak Josiah Cinto, 19, of Siler City, was arrested for driving while license revoked not impaired.
• Byron Keith Jennings, 37, of Chapel Hill, was arrested for assault on a female.
July 29
• Jonathan William Goins, 36, of Siler City, was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.
• Lequentin Jermaine Wilson, 31, of Chapel Hill, was arrested for obtaining property by false pretense and possession of stolen
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ond time next year. Truist and the PGA Tour chose to take the tournament to Philadelphia Cricket Club and its century-old Wissahickon Course.
The tournament went to Eagle Point in Wilmington, North Carolina, when Quail Hollow hosted the PGA Championship in 2017. It went to the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm in Maryland in 2019 when Quail Hollow had the Presidents Cup.
“Securing this event and keeping it here in Charlotte has been really, really important and needs to be celebrated for Truist and Quail Hollow Club and the overall greater Charlotte region. This event has a strong reach,” said Bill Rogers, chairman and CEO of Truist Financial.
Truist is the result of the largest bank merger since the 2008 recession, combining BB&T and Sun Trust.
The seven-year deal assures the PGA Tour having a signature event at Quail Hollow, the club run by Johnny Harris, who has spared no expense over the years.
“The PGA Tour cannot host our events without a title sponsor that makes a multiyear commitment,” Commissioner Jay Monahan said. “When you’re building a championship, when you’re building a presence, when you’re constantly looking to improve, to have that certainty with ... the golf course so that the Harrises can continue to plan and know that they have their respective
from within the community through a series of classes on local governance, team building and economic development.
“Through your hands-on experiences in the Leadership Chatham Program, you will gain indispensable knowledge that will help you to become one of those e ective and inuential leaders,” said a statement from the Chamber announcing this year’s program.
Classes generally run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the second Thursday of the month, and
goods/property.
July 30
• Lequentin Jermaine Wilson, 31, of Chapel Hill, was arrested for misdemeanor larceny and obtaining property by false pretense.
July 31
• Brittany Nicole Johnson, 33, of Bennett, was arrested for malicious conduct by prisoner and resisting public o cer.
Aug. 1
• Jerinza Patterson Torain, 57, of Siler City, was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
Aug. 2
• Bachir Hama Abdou Ide, 29, of Greensboro, was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
Aug. 3
• Nicandro Ortega, 56, of Siler City, was arrested for domestic violence protection order violation.
• Seth Xaive RichardsonClark, 32, of Sanford, was arrested for assault on a female and interfering with emergency communication.
• Shanya Alyse Cotton, 23, of Pittsboro, was arrested
covered topics include tourism, agriculture, public safety, education, team building and more.
Leadership Chatham begins Sept. 12, is $550 for Chamber Members and $650 for non-members, with a strict limit of 25 participants per year. The application deadline is Sept. 6.
For more information, reach out to Cheryl Littleton at the Chatham Chamber of Commerce at cheryll@chathamchambernc.org or visit chathamchambernc.org.
for driving while impaired, exceeding posted speed, and unsafe passing yellow line.
Aug. 4
• Sven Arden Murray, 41, of Silver Spring, MD, was arrested for larceny of a motor vehicle, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and breaking and entering into motor vehicle with theft.
• Brandon Scott Lackey, 39, of Lenoir, was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
• John Michael Blankenship Jr., 34, of Snow Camp, was arrested for assault by pointing a gun.
Aug. 5
• Cristina Louise Harrison, 25, of Chapel Hill, was arrested for misdemeanor larceny.
• Kenneth Lindale Siler, Jr., 25, of Siler City, was arrested for simple assault.
• Joshua Kendall Lowe, 33, of Moncure, was arrested for possession of rearm by felon.
• Austin Allen Walker, 32, of Apex, was arrested for assault on a female and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
commitment, that’s exceedingly important.”
He said the seven-year deal was a term Truist and the tour felt was the right start and “the right statement to make to the Charlotte community.”
The Truist Championship now is among the eight signature events that o er a $20 million purse, with $3.6 million going to the winner, and a limited eld with no cut. Rory McIlroy won last year over Xander Schau ele.
The signature events get the strongest elds, though they are not mandatory. Quail Hollow last year fell one week before the PGA Championship on the PGA Tour’s schedule. The 2025 schedule has not been released.
Wachovia was the inaugural title sponsor in 2003 through 2008. The tournament did not
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have a title sponsor until Wells Fargo took over in 2011. The bank chose not to renew late last year amid reports it was not interested in the rising cost. The purse went from $9 million in 2022 to $20 million as a signature event the next two years.
The PGA Tour also is taking over management of the tournament from Pro Links Sport. Now it goes to the Championship Management arm of the tour, which also runs events like the Presidents Cup, The Players Championship and the Tour Championship.
The announcement is the second in the last few weeks on replacing title sponsors. Procore is replacing Fortinet as the title sponsor of the Napa, California, tournament that starts the fall portion of the PGA Tour schedule.
Neal Robbins, publisher | Frank Hill, senior opinion editor
There is a reason that autocratic rulers rst attack and seek to silence the media.
EVAN GERSHKOVICH is home. The Wall Street Journal reporter had been imprisoned in Russia and sentenced for espionage, charges he vehemently denied. Thankfully, the U.S. and its allies, including Germany, negotiated a multinational prisoner exchange, and Gershkovich was freed among others, including ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.
I had followed Gershkovich’s writing in the WSJ before he was arrested. In January 2023, he wrote an article about Russian civilians leaving owers at the feet of a Ukrainian statue. This gesture might not seem like much.
Yet Gershkovich’s reporting suggests the owers were both memorials to the dead and in protest of the su ering of innocent Ukrainians. The Russians began to leave owers after January 20, 2023, when scores of Ukrainians, mostly women and children, were killed in the city of Dnipro by a Russian missile attack on an apartment building.
Putin’s Russia is a highly repressive state. Civilians are arrested and ned for merely holding peace signs in public squares. It may seem beyond credulity to suggest that owers might end the actions of such a totalitarian ruler.
But it is striking to note that the Russian mourners left owers at the statue of a Ukrainian poet. Lesia Ukrainka was an early 20th-century writer whose statue was unveiled in 2006 on Ukrainian Boulevard in the Russian capital of
Moscow. One of her famous poems, “Contra Spem Spero!” (“I hope against hope!”), is about overcoming adversity, even nding joy amid sorrows. The nal stanza of Ukrainka’s poem of hope reads, “Yes, I’ll smile, indeed, through tears and weeping; sing my songs where evil holds its sway. Hopeless, a steadfast hope forever keeping, I shall live! You thoughts of grief, away!”
“Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W.H. Auden. What is a poem in a repressive state, a ower against military might? But a poem might sow seeds of empathy, which may blossom into solidarity. Gershkovich noted that the orist nearest to the Ukrainian poet’s statue was selling out of owers due to the mourners. With apologies to Auden, that is something. There is a reason that autocratic rulers rst attack and seek to silence the media. Perhaps the pen itself is not mightier than the armed tank or ghter plane, but the spark the written word creates in the hearts of humans can make a di erence. In Ukrainka’s words, “Hopeless, a steadfast hope forever keeping.”
Andrew Taylor-Troutman is pastor of Chapel in the Pines Presbyterian Church as well as a writer, pizza maker, co ee drinker and student of joy.
People are like AC and water: we miss ’em when we don’t have ’em
Like water when the well runs dry.
THE CURRENT SPELL of hot weather has convinced me of something — I am a weenie.
I’m pretty sure I wasn’t always one ... I think.
But I can’t remember for sure.
Simply put, without air conditioning I tend to lose — and quickly — my sweet and gentle nature.
Genteel people “perspire,” I read somewhere.
Ladies “glisten,” I’ve been told.
I sweat.
Even thinking about work does that to me.
And not having air conditioning makes it all worse.
Fortunately most places in my life today have such a creature comfort, and I am keenly aware that not everyone does. But the point of this running on verbally is to note the great truth that until we have something and then we don’t have it that is when we miss it.
Like water when the well runs dry.
I’m fairly certain that if I did not have access to air conditioning then I wouldn’t know the di erence and wouldn’t miss it. And the foundation for all that information and awareness rests with my parents.
Up to a certain age when I was but a mere boy, we didn’t have AC. We’d ing up the windows — fortunately there were screens — and set a “box” fan in one of them on the end of the house and re that thing up. Even the hot breezes that often were there weren’t all that unpleasant, again likely because I didn’t know better.
Plus, Mama had an old cast iron or some similar heavy metal fan that would turn from side to side as it fanned the breeze. It might have weighed a ton, but it moved some air. It was one of those what you call “oscillating” fans, but I couldn’t spell that or come close to pronouncing it then so we just called it “the fan.”
In my tender preteen years, if you were lucky enough to nd yourself caught between those two fans you had all you needed.
At a certain point, however — and I don’t know for sure when that was because when you’re 8 years old you usually don’t get a vote in family decisions — my folks decided
they’d had enough. I still remember the day the AC came to live with us.
Big as a truck, it was, and sitting in a front window ... but boy, was it cool.
In more ways than one.
With it in place, I didn’t mind doing my math homework because I could sit at the table in front of the AC. My grades didn’t necessarily improve because of the AC; it was just that I didn’t mind doing the homework.
Moving along through the years has only reinforced the deep appreciation I have for AC, learned at my mama’s knee. And when AC became standard equipment on vehicles instead of a top-of-the-line option, I was really hooked. Made the mistake once in my uninformed youth of buying a car without it and the “460” model AC — four windows rolled down at 60 mph — upset everyone’s hair.
So I’m hopelessly a weenie if I’m without the AC because I now do know the di erence. And that same thought came to mind as I was plowing through a pile of “stu ” in my study trying to decide if it really was a good idea to keep out-of-date coupons, two-year-old newspapers and an empty Coke can.
Stuck in with all that stu and more was a paper pad with some names on it — names of folks that I planned to see in some long-ago week before the week when I made the list was over.
I’m not sure when that list came to be, but of the 12 people on it, a grand total of ve are still with us.
Seeing the names of the other seven made me miss them all over again — because I’d known life with them.
So here’s the deal — don’t put too big of a demand on your well, keep the AC in good shape, and if you’ve got a list of folks you want to see — written on paper or on your brain — go see them. It’ll be worth the e ort, even if the e ort makes you hot and you perspire or glisten or sweat, even.
Trust me on this one.
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I silently explain to my little whisperer (again and again) that I truly am a good human being.
CUTTING RIGHT to the chase. I have an internal whisperer. No, no, not a mental health issue (I don’t think.) We all have access to inner wisdom, voices helping guide us, strong inclinations indicating “this way, not that,” personal markers for knowing how to move forward in our lives.
Of course, let’s be honest, we don’t always pay attention to this innate guidance. (At least, I don’t) Listening inwardly can be a real challenge. (You’ve noticed?) So many, bu eting, external factors nosing us toward “do this!” or “do that!” It can be exhausting. So, yes, I have a little internal whispering voice. We have accompanied each other throughout my life. Not always willingly, on my part. (That’s a bit of an understatement) Lying on my living room couch, staring out at the canopy of trees, I will often hear that familiar little voice, “For heaven’s sakes, there are so many people hurting in the world and you’re just lying on the living room couch staring out the window. Shouldn’t you be doing something more? You know, impactful and worthy of living in this world?”
Impactful? World-worthy?
“Bettering the world … or something.”
I silently explain to my little whisperer (again and again) that I truly am a good human being, present to other people and stepping up as an advocate, when needed. Yes, it’s true, a bit OCD when organizing committees I chair, but people generally thank me at a later date. (They’ve come to see the light?) I then tick o other worthy
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characteristics, such as being a sensitive listener, intuitive and funny, all contained in my defensive litany of “I am a good person in the world. Really!” Wait, is anyone even listening?!
I’ve proven myself a worthy and caring citizen. (Right?) May I now I return to staring out the window at nature’s beauty? Gimme a break.
The real issue, my little whisperer, is that I feel defensive when I hear the ongoing prod to better the world, 24/7. I have to rest, eat chocolate and exercise. What I truly need is the capacity, the freedom, to listen to my own inner wisdom, my unique calling for how and when to walk in the world. This uniquely personal knowing often unfolds, in silence, vis-à-vis lying on my living room couch and feeling pulled into the canopy of trees outside. Listening inwardly.
Hey, little whisperer, isn’t that what you really want of me, and maybe all of us?
Caring for ourselves enough to stop, eat, sleep and stare out the window at whatever magic may have just captured our attention. I cannot be a 24/7 sentinel for all the world’s needs. (I’m fond of maintaining my sanity, you know) For the most part, I do trust that I will, indeed, hear life’s summons when I’m needed.
So relax. Take a deep breath…
Jan Hutton, a resident of Chatham County and retired hospice social worker, lives life with heart and humor.
A safe and secure nation needs a safe and secure border.
UNDER PRESIDENT BIDEN and Vice President Harris’ failed leadership, you have seen record-high in ation, skyrocketing energy prices, the worst border crisis in history, and your constitutional rights under attack. Since House Republicans took the majority nearly two years ago, we have worked tirelessly to undo the damage the Biden-Harris administration’s policies have done and ensure a safer, freer, more prosperous future for you and your family.
We have passed historic legislation to unleash American energy independence and make life more a ordable for you. The BidenHarris administration’s war on American energy has resulted in skyrocketing prices across the board. Unfortunately, instead of boosting production of domestic energy to lower prices, President Biden has continued to double down on his anti-energy policies. Every day, you are paying more at the pump, at the grocery store, and for your electricity bills, leaving you struggling to make ends meet. House Republicans’ bill, the Lower Energy Costs Act, will make energy more a ordable again by increasing domestic energy production, reforming our broken permitting process, and reversing President Biden’s anti- energy policies.
We have also taken action to combat the crisis at our border by passing the Secure the Border Act, the strongest border security package that Congress has ever considered.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s open border policies have led to nearly 10 million illegal crossings and deadly fentanyl owing into our communities. Too many innocent Americans, like Laken Riley, have been beaten, raped and murdered at the hands of people here illegally.
A safe and secure nation needs a safe and secure border. Our legislation would reinstate the successful Trump-era border policies, strengthen our asylum laws, provide Border Patrol agents with more resources, and force the Biden administration to restart construction of the border wall.
As your congressman, I am focused on legislation that will safeguard your constitutionally protected freedoms. I am proud to lead on multiple pieces of legislation, including H.R. 615, the Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act, H.J.Res.44, a resolution to block the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) unconstitutional pistol brace banl and H.R. 5110, the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, which became law on Oct. 6, 2023. As the Biden administration continues to try and target your Second Amendment rights, these common-sense measures make clear your right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
This is only some of what House Republicans have accomplished to ful ll our promises and address the issues you face every day — but we’re not done working.
We are going to nish this Congress strong and continue pushing back against the BidenHarris administration’s extreme agenda that has crushed you and your family. We won’t stop ghting for solutions that protect your freedom, strengthen our economy, keep our communities safe, x the crisis at the border, and help you and every American family succeed.
Richard Hudson represents the 9th Congressional District in Washington, D.C.
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BEFORE GEORGE SOROS and progressive Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars across the country to elect district attorneys, their antilaw enforcement agenda started in California.
In 2003, a young, power-hungry assistant district attorney named Kamala Harris primaried her boss and was elected Oakland County district attorney. Just four months into o ce, as a new DA she would reduce charges of a gang member who shot and killed a police o cer. Time and time again, Harris showed a soft-on-crime approach. California has long held a brand of politics apart from the rest of the country, a place where people accept it as a tradeo for sunshine, movie stardom, or fortunes in Silicon Valley.
Yet over the past two decades, this dangerous and radical strain of progressivism has been exported across the country.
In New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and even here in North Carolina, radical district attorneys thumb their noses at enforcing the law and instead make excuses for those who willingly commit criminal acts.
Harris’ willingness to turn a blind eye to terrorists, and drug and human tra cking sends a dangerously unsettling message.
One such district attorney, Durham’s Satana Deberry, took on an incumbent Democrat while promising to waive unpaid nes, declining to prosecute drug felonies and ending cash bail policies. She won — and made good on her procriminal campaign promises.
The dangerous movement that started with Kamala Harris has gone national. At what point will voters say prioritize public safety, not criminals?
In Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the homicide rate is at its highest level in 21 years. The rst six months of 2024 have seen 61 people murdered in the Queen City. This also includes the brutal killing of four police o cers in the city in April. Our cities are unsafe with far-left, radical liberal policies directly attributed to Harris.
As a U.S. senator, Harris went even further, proudly proclaiming that illegal immigration was not a crime.
This is why her work as “Border Czar” has produced a crisis of unprecedented proportions at the Southern border. Harris’ willingness to turn a blind eye to terrorists, and drug and human tra cking sends a dangerously unsettling message — America welcomes criminal behavior.
The past four years have seen a callous administration, led at the top by Kamala Harris, refusing to take responsibility for the hundreds of crimes committed by migrants. Mothers raped and murdered. Shooting sprees. Not even knowing how many individuals on the terror watch list have crossed the open border.
The central question now is whether North Carolina, and the nation, will stand up to those who champion soft-oncrime, pro-criminal policies.
Even CNN has reported Harris voiced support for “defund the police” in June 2020, shortly before joining Joe Biden as the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee.
Harris said they “rightly” called out the amount of money spent on police departments going even a step further, saying that more police did not equate to more public safety.
In her own words, she said, “We need to take a look at these budgets and gure out whether it re ects the right priorities.” She then accused cities of “militarizing police” but “defunding public schools.” She went on to tell one group that as California’s AG, she signi cantly reformed their criminal justice system and became a national model.
“I’m proud of that work,” she said. That con rms hers is a record — and an origin story — she and Democrats cannot run from.
Kamala Harris cannot be elected president. She is the origin story of radical, out-of-touch, dangerously liberal policies. Nothing less than the safety and security of our country is at stake in November.
Jason Simmons is chairman of the North Carolina GOP.
July 4th, 1942 – Aug. 1st, 2024
Howard Franklin Williams, Jr. age 82, of New Hill, died Thursday, August 1, 2024, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital in Washington, NC. Howard was born in Martin County, North Carolina on July 4, 1942, to the late Howard Franklin Williams, Sr. and Cottie Wynne Williams.
Aug. 27th, 1927 –Aug. 2nd, 2024
Jack Moody, 96, of Siler City passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on August 2, 2024. He was born on August 27, 1927, to J. Lee and Lucy Moody in Moore County. Shortly after, his family moved to Siler City, where Jack was raised and spent his entire life. He grew up during the 1930s and 1940s and was part of the greatest generation ever. Jack earned the rank of Eagle Scout. After graduating from Siler City High School, he joined the US Navy, serving from 19451946 during World War II. Upon completing his Naval duties, Jack graduated from Campbell College, Elon College, and the University of Richmond School of Law. After graduating from law school, Jack enlisted in the US Marine Corps and entered O cer’s Training School at Quantico, Virginia. He served in the US Marine Corps from 1953-1955, where he became a First Lieutenant and served as a legal o cer. In 1955, Jack joined his father’s law rm and was later joined by Sam Williams and Todd Roper to form Moody, Moody, Williams, and Roper until his retirement in 1990. Jack served in the North Carolina Legislature from 19631967 and was appointed by the Governor to the North Carolina Prison Commission and the North
He was also preceded in death by his rst wife Elizabeth Williams, and one brother, Robert A. Williams. Surviving relatives include one brother, Richard C. Williams and wife Sandy of Williamston, one sister, Mary Louise Wright of Jamesville, NC, and one stepson Stevie Mobley and wife Joyce of Charlotte. A visitation will be held Wednesday, August 7, 2024, from 12:00PM-12:50PM at Lee’s Chapel Christian Church. The funeral service will follow at 1:00PM with Rev. Ed Earp presiding. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. In lieu of owers the family asks for donations to be made in Howard’s memory to ASPCA P.O. Box 96929 Washington, DC 20090-6929. Condolences may be made at www.donaldsonfunerals.com
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Carolina Railroad Company Board of Directors. He also served on the Planters Bank Board and RBC Centura Bank Board of Directors for 24 years. Jack was a member of First Baptist Church of Siler City, where he served as a deacon and lifetime trustee. He was a Rotarian and recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow. Jack was also a member of the West Chatham Veterans Memorial Committee, which established a Veterans Memorial in Siler City. He was a charter member of the Siler City Country Club. He was also a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest civilian honor, granted by the O ce of the Governor. After his retirement, he and Mary Helen enjoyed traveling and family beach trips. He took great pleasure in spending time with his four granddaughters and watching NC State basketball and football games with his sons. He enjoyed reading war novels and the Wall Street Journal. He looked forward to his daily breakfast at Brownie Lu’s, where he enjoyed the company of his friends. He also loved a good bowl of ice cream. In addition to his parents, Jack is preceded in death by his sister, Orrell Moody Clark and husband, Carl. He is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Mary Helen; son Barden and wife Laura, granddaughters Maggie and Lucy of Siler City; son Lee of Siler City; son Stephen and wife Katie, granddaughters Jocelyn and Sawyer-Grey of Johns Island, SC; sister Marsha Moody Mitchell and husband Wiley of Williamsburg, VA; and several nieces and nephews. The family is deeply grateful to his caregivers for their exceptional and devoted care during his illness. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to the Hospice care team for their kindness and support. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 314 N 2nd Ave, Siler City, NC, 27344 and Liberty HomeCare and Hospice Services.
May 7th, 1936 –Aug. 3rd, 2024
Lala Sue Vestal
Mendenhall, 88, of Siler City, died peacefully at the Hospice House in Pittsboro, Saturday, August 3, 2024. Sue a native of Chatham County was born to Samuel
Aug. 25th, 1930 –Aug. 4th, 2024
Annie Jean Cheek Joines Gupton, 93, of Siler City, went home to be with the Lord on
IN MEMORY
Ross and Mary Alice Cooper Vestal on May 7, 1936. She was a member of Staley United Methodist Church. She graduated from the Troutman School of Cosmetology. When she wasn’t making others feel great about themselves, she could be found beautifying her yard. She loved her family and friends very much. Mrs. Mendenhall was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Bobby “Bob” Wayne Mendenhall; daughter, Teresa Wire; sister, Lois Pearce; and brothers, Sam and James Vestal. Sue is survived by her son, Gary Mendenhall and wife, Gina, of Siler City; grandson, Jarod and Graham Wire, of GA; brother, Albert Vestal and wife, Dorothy, of Siler City; Sister, Frances Barker, of Siler City; and son-in-law, Charles Wire of GA; and a host of
Sunday, August 4th, 2024, surrounded by family at Chatham Hospital. Jean was born August 25th, 1930, in Chatham County to the late Wade and Annie Davis Cheek. She is preceded in death by her parents, her late husbands, Lyndel Joines and Jimmy Gupton; son, Jerry Joines; sisters, Edna Davis, Golda Hughes, Doris Hancock, Edith Brady, Mary Wade Cheek, and Helen Earle; brothers, John Cheek, James Cheek, Penn Cheek, and Joe Glenn Cheek. Jean was of Baptist faith and loved the Lord. She loved her family and spending time with them. She also liked to read, color, and do puzzles. She is survived by her two stepdaughters, Nina Hill, and Janet DeChatelete;
SANDRA “SANDY” KING PHILLIPS
MARCH 1ST, 1950 – AUG. 3RD, 2024
Sandra “Sandy” King Phillips, 74, of Bear Creek, NC went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, August 3rd, 2024. While her departure was sudden, we rejoice in her reunion with many loved ones who passed before her.
Sandy was born at home in Gulf, NC to Margaret Skinner King and Alton King on March 1, 1950. She was a proud Chatham Central graduate, class of 1968, followed by Sanford Business School. She worked as a bookkeeper for H&H Willett Trucking and G&N Trucking. Sandy was known for her excellent cooking including her biscuits (“baby biscuits” for the littles), fried apple pies and other sweet treats. Her artistic skills were shared with many sketches of churches and decorations for VBS for her church. Sewing was also one of her talents, helping with alterations and projects for many. She loved owers and working in her yard.
Sandy married Gerry Alan Phillips April 18, 1970. Together they built a life surrounded by friends and family. She was very active at her beloved Fall Creek Baptist Church serving as a Sunday school teacher and a member of WMU. She was actively helping with the upcoming celebration of the 225th year celebration.
She was preceded in death by her husband Gerry; children, Gregory Alan and Crystal Lynne Phillips; sister Alice K Christian and parents Margaret and Alton King.
PAULINE (DOUGLAS) CUMMINGS MYERS
OCT.18TH, 1928 – JULY 30TH, 2024
Pauline (Douglas) Cummings Myers, age 95, of Sanford, NC, slipped peacefully into The Arms of Her Lord and Savior on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at UNCChapel Hill, with her loving family by her side.
She was born in Harnett County on October 18, 1928 to the late Charlie Glenn & Dinah (Creed) Douglas. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Leon Cummings (1994) and Elmer Myers (2017); her son Sammy Cummings; brothers Billy Douglas, Neil Douglas, Lloyd Douglas, Floyd Douglas; sister Elsie (Douglas) Carpenter; grandsons Robbie Lynn Cummings and William Samuel “David” Cummings.
nieces, nephews, and friends.
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, August 10, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at the Smith and Buckner Funeral Home Chapel, with Rick Barker and Rev. Patrick Fuller o ciating. Family and Friends are welcome to visit with the family following the service.
The family would like to thank UNC Chatham Hospital, UNC Chapel Hill, and SECU Hospice, and all her nurses and doctors.
The family request memorials be made to SECU Jim and Betsy Bryan Hospice Home at 100 Roundtree Way, Pittsboro, NC 27312.
Smith & Buckner Funeral Home is serving the Mendenhall family. Online Condolences may be made at www. smithbucknerfh.com
a stepson, Sam Gupton; grandchildren, Jason Joines and Makenzie Hartzel; twelve other grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren, two great great grandchildren; and nieces.
A Celebration of Life service will be held at Smith & Buckner Funeral Home on Friday, August 9th, 2024, at 2 PM. Inurnment will be at Chatham Memorial Park at a later date. Services will be o ciated by Reverend John Klink of Brookdale Baptist Church. Memorials can be made to any charity of your choice. Smith & Buckner Funeral Home will be assisting the Gupton family. Online condolences can be made at www. smithbucknerfh.com
BETTY DEAN WILLIAMS DANIELS
MAY 31ST, 1942 – JULY 29TH, 2024
Betty Dean Williams Daniels, age 82, of Sanford, passed away peacefully, on Monday, July 29, 2024 at UNC Health Johnston, with family by her side.
She was born in Erwin, North Carolina on May 31, 1942 to the late Carthan Williams and Clara Bell Boyette Williams. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Danny Ray Daniels; son, Ronnie Coker, and siblings, James Hu ne, James “Skeat” Gilmore, Jerry Gilmore, Leroy Gilmore, Ruth “Marie” Paul, Peggy Medlin and Jamie Sco eld.
JOHN WENDELL KIDD MAY 9TH, 1944 – JULY 29TH, 2024
John Wendell Kidd, 80, of Bennett, passed away on Monday, July 29, 2024 at his home. The funeral service will be held on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at Beulah Baptist church with Dr. Neal Jackson presiding. Visitation will be on Thursday, August 1, 2024 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Joyce-Brady Chapel. Wendell was born in Chatham County on May 9, 1944 to Lacy and Bonnie Lambert Kidd. He was a member of Beulah Baptist Church and a lifelong farmer. He raised chickens and various livestock. He was a member of the Tri-County Ruritan Club and enjoyed cooking with the Ruritans and men of the church. He also enjoyed shing, NASCAR and spending time with his family and friends. In addition to his parents, Wendell was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, Judith Ann Cockman Kidd. He is survived by his children, Karen Kidd Williams (Wayne), of Eagle Springs, Je Kidd (Alison) of Richmond, VA, Keith Siler, of Mocksville and Chris Siler (Cathy), of Wake Forest; grandchildren, Stephanie Siler, Austin Siler, Sam Siler (Katie), Anne Siler, Janna Williams Kennedy (Matthew), Weston Williams (Hailie), Caroline Kidd, Grace Kidd and Stella Kidd; great-grandchildren, Kaine Siler, Lucy Siler, Hadley Williams and Morgan Kennedy and a host of family and friends. In lieu of owers, the family requests memorials may be made to Beulah Baptist Church Building Fund, 8454 Howard Mill Rd., Bennett, NC 27208 or Tri-County Ruritans, P.O.
Bean worked in the MLB commissioner’s o ce after he retired from baseball
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Billy Bean, who became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay in 1999 before becoming the sport’s senior vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, has died. He was 60.
MLB released a statement con rming his death. Bean died at home on Tuesday after a yearlong ght with acute myeloid leukemia.
The California native played
in six big league seasons from 1987 to 1995, making his debut with the Detroit Tigers in a four-hit performance that tied a record for a player in his rst game. He also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. He was a twotime All-American out elder at Loyola Marymount, leading the team to the NCAA Men’s College World Series in 1986.
Bean wrote a book titled “Going the Other Way” and was also a keynote speaker at many events. He publicly came out as gay in 1999, the second former major leaguer to do so after Glenn Burke.
Bean joined the commissioner’s o ce in 2014, when he was hired by former Commissioner Bud Selig to be MLB’s rst am-
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bassador for inclusion. He spent more than 10 years working for MLB, eventually being promoted to senior vice president.
Bean worked with MLB clubs to “advance equality for all players, coaches, managers, umpires, employees, and stakeholders throughout baseball to ensure an equitable, inclusive, and supportive workplace for everyone.”
“Our hearts are broken today as we mourn our dear friend and colleague, Billy Bean, one of the kindest and most respected individuals I have ever known,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. “Billy was a friend to countless people across our game, and he made a di erence through his constant dedication to others.”
been even more catastrophic,” Merriweather says. The district attorney’s o ce interviewed law enforcement o cers who were at the shooting, including 12 Charlotte-Mecklenburg police o cers who red their guns, to determine if the use of deadly force against Hughes was warranted. Authorities also compiled body camera footage and physical evidence, such as how many rounds were discharged during the shooting: 29 by Hughes and 340 by o cers.
Merriweather’s report described a scene of chaos and confusion during the lengthy stando that left the four o cers dead: Sam Poloche and William Elliott of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction; Charlotte-Mecklenburg O cer Joshua Eyer and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks.
As state fugitive task force o cers arrived at Hughes’ residence to serve arrest warrants on the afternoon of April 29, he retreated inside his home and began ring on them with an assault ri e from a window upstairs, the report says.
Weeks was hit while taking cover with Poloche behind a tree in the backyard, according to the investigation. Elliott and another o cer were shot near the home’s fence, authorities said. Eyer and Poloche were shot behind the tree while Eyer was attempting to help Weeks, the report says.
Three other Charlotte-Mecklenburg police o cers were shot at di erent locations outside the house, according to the report.
Hughes jumped down from the home’s upstairs window into the front yard, where o cers told him to drop his weapon, according to the investigation. The o cers opened re, hitting Hughes 12 times and killing him, according to a state autopsy report. Hughes had two more 30-round ri e magazines in his pocket and an unused pistol on his hip, the district attorney’s o ce said.
During the course of the shooting, the investigation found that 23 o cers had shot at Hughes. None of the four o cers who were killed had red their weapons before they were shot, according to the report.
About 50 minutes after Hughes’ death, his girlfriend called 911 to report that she and her 17-year-old daughter were hiding in a closet in the home. After interviewing them, investigators determined there was no evidence that they had been involved in the shooting of the o cers.
Celebrate the life of your loved ones. Submit obituaries and death notices to be published in Chatham News & Record at obits@chathamrecord.com
“If
law enforcement o cers had not responded to an imminently deadly threat with lethal force, as di cult as it is to imagine, the outcome could have been even more catastrophic.”
Mecklenburg County DA Spencer Merriweather
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY
23E000597
Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of JOHN NATHAN BEIDLER, deceased, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the Estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before October 31, 2024, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment. This the 1st day of August 2024. c/o Elinor J. Foy, Attorney for Eliana M. Perrin, Executor of the Estate of John Nathan Beidler Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton, LLP 4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 300 Raleigh, NC 27607
NOTICE OF TAX FORECLOSURE SALE
Under and by virtue of an order of the District Court of Chatham County, North Carolina, made and entered in the action entitled COUNTY OF CHATHAM vs. MACLYN A. HUMPHREY and spouse, if any, and all possible heirs and assignees of MACLYN A. HUMPHREY and spouse, if any, or any other person or entity claiming thereunder, et al, 17 CvD 19, the undersigned Commissioner will on the 21st day of August, 2024, o er for sale and sell for cash, to the last and highest bidder at public auction at the courthouse door in Chatham County, North Carolina, Pittsboro, North Carolina at 12:00 o’clock, noon, the following described real property, lying and being in Hickory Mountain Township, State and County aforesaid, and more particularly described as follows: All that certain tract of land containing 5.864 acres as per plat of Van Finch Land Surveys, P.A., dated July 22, 1993, and recorded in the Chatham County Registry at Plat Slide 93-277, to which plat reference is hereby made for a more particular description of same. Subject to restrictive covenants and easements of record. Parcel Identi cation Number: 0012271 The undersigned Commissioner makes no warranties in connection with this property and speci cally disclaims any warranties as to title and habitability. This property is being sold as is, without opinion as to title or any other matter. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding city and county taxes and all local improvement assessments against the above described property not included in the judgment in the above-entitled cause. A cash deposit of 20 percent of the successful bid will be required. In addition, the successful bidder will be required, at the time the Deed is recorded to pay for recording fees and revenue stamps assessed by the Chatham County Register of Deeds. This sale is subject to upset bid as set forth in N.C.G.S. Section 1-339.25. This the 25th day of July, 2024.
Mark D. Bardill/Mark B. Bardill, Commissioner P.O. Box 25 Trenton, NC 28585 Publication dates: August 8, 2024 August 15, 2024.
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
A public hearing will be held by the Chatham County Board of Commissioners on Monday, August 19, 2024, beginning at 6:00 p.m. The hearing will be held in the courtroom of the Historic Courthouse in Pittsboro, North Carolina at 9 Hillsboro Street. Additional information is available at the Chatham County Planning Department o ce. Speakers are requested to sign up at the meeting prior to the hearing. You may also sign up on the county website prior to the meeting at www.chathamcountync.gov by selecting the heading Government, then Commissioner Meetings, then Public Input/Hearing Sign Up. The public hearing may be continued to another date at the discretion of the Board of Commissioners.
The purpose of the Public Hearing is to receive input, both written and oral, on the issues listed below: A legislative public hearing requested by Qunity, PA to rezone Parcels 2752, 93852, 18909 from CDCC Conditional District Compact Community to R-1 Residential, being a total of approximately 46.607 acres, located of US 15-501 N, Baldwin Township. A legislative public hearing requested by Qunity, PA to rezone Parcels 18750, 18896, 18897 from CD-CC Conditional District Compact Community to CD-O&I Conditional District O ce & Institutional for a church/ place of worship, being a total of 50.117 acres, located at 9780 US 15-501 N, Williams Township.
Substantial changes may be made following the public hearing due to verbal or written comments received or based on the Board’s discussions.
Notice to people with special needs: If you have an audio or visual impairment, unique accessibility requirements or need language assistance, please call the number listed below prior to the hearing and assistance may be provided. If you have any questions or comments concerning these issues, please call the Chatham County Planning Department at 919-542-8204 or write to P.O. Box 54, Pittsboro N.C. 27312.
Please run in your paper: August 8th and 15th, 2024
EXECUTOR’S NOTICE TO CREDITORS
NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY
All persons having claims against the estate of John J. Boren of Chatham County, NC, who died on the 1st of June, 2024, are noti ed to present them on or before November 10, 2024 to George M. Chescheir, III, Executor for the Estate, c/o Schupp & Hamilton, P.L.L.C., P. O. Box 3200, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3200, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Schupp & Hamilton, P.L.L.C. P. O. Box 3200 Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3200
For August 8th, August 19th, August 22nd and August 29th, 2024.
NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE TO CREDITORS
CHATHAM COUNTY
HAVING QUALIFIED as Administrator of the Estate of Jonathan Barbee Burke, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 31st day of October, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. This the 25th day of July, 2024. Melanie Faye Burke, Administrator of the Estate of Jonathan Barbee Burke 1203 S. Second Avenue Siler City, North Carolina 27344
MOODY, WILLIAMS, ATWATER & LEE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW BOX 629 SILER CITY, NORTH CAROLINA 27344 (919) 663-2850
NOTICE
North Carolina Chatham County Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of Christopher Larry Hipp, deceased, late of 4053 Moncure Pittsboro Rd. Moncure NC 27559, Chatham County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the Estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned, Mildred Hipp, Executor, on or before the 23rd day of October 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment. This the 25th day of July, 2024. Mildred T. Hipp, Executor 4697 Moncure Pittsboro Rd. Moncure, NC 27559
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of Louise G. McLaughlin ( aka Virginia Louise McLaughlin), late of Chatham County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, rms or corporations having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned at PO Box 5945, High Point, North Carolina 27262 on or before the 1st day of November, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms or corporations indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This the 1st day of August, 2024. Linda McMasters, Executor Estate of Louise G. McLaughlin PO Box 5945 High Point, North Carolina 27262 Kevin L. Rochford, Attorney Estate of Louise G. McLaughlin PO Box 5945 High Point, North Carolina 27262 (FOR PUBLICATION: 08/01/2024, 08/08/2024, 08/15/2024, 08/22/2024)
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
All persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the estate of Josephine Bryson Sears, deceased of Chatham County, North Carolina, are noti ed to exhibit them to the undersigned co-Executor on or before the 22nd day of October, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment. This is the 25th day of July, 2024. Lora Schlosser, co-Executor 480 Quail Ridge Dr. Apex, NC 27523 Published By Chatham News and Record July 25, August 1,8,15, 2024.
NOTICE
NOTICE OF TAX FORECLOSURE SALE
Under and by virtue of an order of the District Court of Chatham County, North Carolina, made and entered in the action entitled COUNTY OF CHATHAM vs. THE HEIRS, ASSIGNS and DEVISEES of ETTA SILER
FOXX A/K/A ETTA JEAN JOHNSON A/K/A JEAN
JOHNSON and spouse, if any, or any other person or entity claiming thereunder, MIRANDA T. JOHNSON and MIRANDA T. JOHNSON’S SPOUSE, if any, and all possible heirs and assignees of MIRANDA T. JOHNSON and MIRANDA T. JOHNSON’S SPOUSE, if any, or any other person or entity claiming thereunder, REGINALD Q. JOHNSON, JR. and REGINALD Q. JOHNSON, JR.,’S SPOUSE, if any, and all possible heirs and assignees of REGINALD Q. JOHNSON, JR. and REGINALD Q.
JOHNSON, JR.’S SPOUSE, if any, or any other person or entity claiming thereunder, et al, 22 CvD 469, the undersigned Commissioner will on the 21st day of August, 2024, o er for sale and sell for cash, to the last and highest bidder at public auction at the courthouse door in Chatham County, North Carolina, Pittsboro, North Carolina at 12:00 o’clock, noon, the following described real property, lying and being in Matthews Township, State and County aforesaid, and more particularly described as follows: BEING all of Lots No. 65 and 66 of the High Knoll SubDivision, plat recorded in the o ce of the Register of Deeds for Chatham County, North Carolina, in Plat Book 6, Page 52. Subject to restrictive covenants, easements, and rights-of-way of record.
Parcel Identi cation Number: 0013439
The undersigned Commissioner makes no warranties in connection with this property and speci cally disclaims any warranties as to title and habitability. This property is being sold as is, without opinion as to title or any other matter. This sale will be made subject to all outstanding city and county taxes and all local improvement assessments against the above described property not included in the judgment in the above-entitled cause. A cash deposit of 20 percent of the successful bid will be required. In addition, the successful bidder will be required, at the time the Deed is recorded to pay for recording fees and revenue stamps assessed by the Chatham County Register of Deeds. This sale is subject to upset bid as set forth in N.C.G.S. Section 1-339.25. This the 25th day of July, 2024.
Mark D. Bardill/Mark B. Bardill, Commissioner P.O. Box 25 Trenton, NC 28585 Publication dates: August 8, 2024 August 15, 2024
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
FILE NO: 24E001359-180
All persons, rms and corporations having claims against Seth Francis Cuni, deceased, of Chatham County, NC, are noti ed to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before October 19, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of recovery. Debtors of the decedent are asked to make immediate payment.
This the 18th day of July 2024. Amy Cuni, Executrix, C/O Ashley Fox, Attorney W.G. Alexander & Associates 3717 Benson Drive Raleigh, NC 27609
Chatham News and Record July 18, 25, Aug 1, 8, 2024
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The undersigned, having quali ed in Chatham County on the 22nd day of July, 2024, as Limited
Personal Representative of the Estate of Lee William Walker, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 25th day of October, 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate, please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This 25th day of July 2024
Gwendolyn C. Brooks Kennon Craver, PLLC 4011 University Drive, Suite 300 Durham, North Carolina 27707 Claire Mai Walker, Limited Personal Representative of the Estate of Lee William Walker Post O ce Box 57579 Durham, North Carolina 27717 THE CHATHAM NEWS: 7/25/2024, 8/1/2024, 8/8/2024, and 8/15/2024
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
24-E-1364
NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY
The undersigned, Brian Inman having quali ed as Administrator CTA of the Estate of Annette Inman deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the day of October 23rd 2024, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 25th of July 2024.
Brian Inman Administrator CTA c/o Marie H. Hopper Attorney for the Estate Hopper Cummings, PLLC Post O ce Box 1455 Pittsboro, NC 27312
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
ALL PERSONS, rms and corporations having claims against JANET T. HALE, deceased, of Chatham County, are noti ed to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before October 25, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to the Estate will please make immediate payment.
This 25th day of July, 2024.
CONSTANCE HALE BOOTH, EXECUTRIX
ESTATE OF JANET T. HALE c/o Tillman, Whichard & Cagle, PLLC 501 Eastowne Drive, Suite 130 Chapel Hill, NC 27514
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
The undersigned, Annabelle Stein, having quali ed as
Executor of the estate of Irma S. Stein deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons, rms or corporations having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the day of October 23 2024, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 18th day of July 2024. Annabelle Stein, Executor, 997 Rock Rest Road, Pittsboro NC 27312
LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
TOWN OF PITTSBORO, NC
On Monday, August 12, 2024, at 6:00 pm, the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners will hold the following legislative public hearings in person at the Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center at 1192 Hwy 64 Business West, Pittsboro: PB-24-266 – A legislative request by Bourbonandwine LLC petitioning for a map amendment rezoning parcel 8231 from its current classi cation, R10 (Residential 10,000 sf lot minimum) to C2 (Highway Business). The parcel is approximately 0.47 acres and is located next door to Al’s Diner. The owner intends to repurpose the current structure and the property for future commercial use.
PB-24-127 – A legislative request by Pittsboro Place
WEH LP, has been submitted a petition for map amendment rezoning 208.78 acres - parcels 87611, 87607, 87608, 87610, 83080, 83078, 83082, 83081, 83083, 7317, 60741, 73513, 85076, 87604, 87605, 87606, 87612, 87613, 87614, 83084, 87609, and 81979 from their current classi cation, M2 (Heavy Industrial) to C2-CZ (Highway Business Conditional) and MR-CZ (Multifamily Residential Conditional). The developer intends to utilize the site property for highway business (Pod E – 19.5 acres) and mixed-use residential use (townhomes and single family; Pods B, C & D – 111.9 acres). An area identi ed as Pod A (approximately 72.67 acres) will be donated to the Town as a public park. The hearing will be held in person. The public can also watch the hearing live on the Town’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/ streams. Members of the public must attend in person if they wish to speak at the hearing. Contact the Town Clerk, Carrie Bailey, by 4 pm on August 12, 2024, with written comments or to sign up to speak at the legislative hearing. You can contact Carrie Bailey at cbailey@pittsboronc.gov, (919) 5424621 ext. 1104, or PO Box 759, Pittsboro, NC 27312.
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NORTH CAROLINA NOTICE TO CREDITORS CHATHAM COUNTY
HAVING QUALIFIED as Executor of the Estate of Henry Gene Smith, Sr., late of Chatham County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the estate of said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of November, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. This the 30th day of July, 2024. Lynda Smith, Executor of the Estate of Henry Gene Smith, Sr. 124 B John Henry Road Siler City, North Carolina 27344 MOODY, WILLIAMS, ATWATER & LEE ATTORNEYS AT LAW BOX 629 SILER CITY, NORTH CAROLINA 27344 (919) 663-2850 4tp
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NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION CHATHAM COUNTY BEFORE THE CLERK FILE NO: 24E001387-180 IN RE: ESTATE OF ROSS WILLIAM ENGEL NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE UNDERSIGNED having quali ed as co- Executors of the Estate of ROSS WILLIAM ENGEL, Deceased, in the O ce of the Clerk of Superior Court of Chatham County, do hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against the said Decedent to present them to the undersigned on or before November 8, 2024, said date being at least three months from the date of the rst publication or posting of this Notice as indicated below, or the same will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons
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FILE#24E000045-180 The undersigned, MARTHA REGAN HEFNER, having quali ed on the 16TH day of JULY 2024, as EXECUTOR of the Estate of HELEN A MCNAMARA, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 30TH Day of OCTOBER 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 1ST DAY OF AUGUST 2024. MARTHA REGAN HEFNER, ADMINISTRATOR 81415 ALEXANDER CHAPEL HILL, NC 27517 Run dates: A1,8,15,22p
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FILE#24E001400-180
The undersigned, TRAVIS BRENT HUSSEY, having quali ed on the 30TH day of JULY 2024, as EXECUTOR of the Estate of JUANITA RICHARDSON, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 6TH Day of NOVEMBER 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 8th Day of AUGUST 2024.
TRAVIS BRENT HUSSEY, EXECUTOR PAYABLE TO:
THE LAW OFFICE OF LEWIS FADELY, PLLC 119 N.FIR AVE SILER CITY, NC 27344
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NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY
FILE#24E001405-180
The undersigned, NICOLE STEMLER O’CONNELL AND/OR COLLEEN K. STEMLER, having quali ed on the 30TH day of JULY 2024, as CO-EXECUTORS of the Estate of KENNETH H. STEMLER, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 6TH Day of NOVEMBER 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 8th Day of AUGUST 2024.
NICOLE STEMLER O’CONNELL, CO-EXECUTOR 390 MARKHAM PLANTATION APEX, NC 27523
COLLEEN K. STEMLER, CO-EXECUTOR 207 ROYAL TOWER WAY CARY, NC 27513
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NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY
FILE#24E001360-180
The undersigned, KATHLEEN S. DICKINSON, having quali ed on the 11TH day of JULY 2024, as EXECUTOR of the Estate of NATALIE PHELPS TENNANT, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 23RD Day of OCTOBER 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 25th Day of JULY 2024.
KATHLEEN S. DICKINSON, EXECUTOR 107 STARLING ST. MEBANE, NC 27302
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The undersigned, Constance Darlynn Arnold having quali ed as Limited Personal Representative of the Estate of Maggie Faye Wingo deceased, late of Chatham County, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate to present them to the undersigned on or before the day of October 23rd 2024, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This the 25th of July 2024.
Constance Darlynn Arnold Limited Personal Representative c/o Marie H. Hopper Attorney for the Estate Hopper Cummings, PLLC Post O ce Box 1455 Pittsboro, NC 27312
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Estate of Edna Gail Lewis
Having quali ed as Executor of the Estate of Edna Gail Lewis, late of Chatham County, North Carolina, the undersigned does hereby notify all persons, rms, and corporations having claims against the estate of said decedent to exhibit them to the undersigned at 100 Europa Drive, Suite 271, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517, on or before the 10th day of November, 2024, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons, rms, corporations indebted to the said estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 8th day of August 2024.
William M. Lewis Executor of the Estate of Edna Gail Lewis Timothy A. Nordgren Schell Bray PLLC Attorney for the Estate 100 Europa Drive, Suite 271 Chapel Hill, NC, 27517 FOR PUBLICATION: Aug 8, 15, 22, 29 2024
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FILE#24E001393-180 The undersigned, OTTO STEVE GREEN, having quali ed on the 23RD day of JULY 2024, as EXECUTOR of the Estate of MARY LOU ALICE GREEN, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 30TH Day of OCTOBER 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned.
This is the 1ST DAY OF AUGUST 2024.
OTTO STEVE GREEN, EXECUTOR 422 PITTSBORO GOLDSTON RD. PITTSBORO, NC 27312
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PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
A public hearing will be held by the Goldston Town Board on Monday, August 13th 2024, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The hearing will be held at the Goldston Methodist Church, located at 185 Hillcrest Avenue, Goldston, NC 27252.
Additional information is available at the Chatham County Planning Department o ce. Speakers are requested to sign up at the meeting prior to the hearing. You may also request to speak by contacting the town clerk Annie Kay King Gaines at akkgaines@ americansouthgc.com, Ben Townsend at ben.townofgoldston@ gmail.com, or Hunter Glenn at hunter.glenn@chathamcountync. gov.
The public hearing may be continued to another date at the discretion of the Board.
The purpose of the Public Hearing is to receive input, both written and oral, on the issues listed below: Alex Culpepper on behalf of Sunrock Group and Chatham Resources LLC has requested a legislative public hearing for an amendment to the Town of Goldston Zoning Map to zone as CDIH Conditional District Heavy Industrial 639.66 acres located o Goldston Glendon Road and Bonlee Carbonton Road (parcels 8335,74836,80056).
Alex Culpepper on behalf of Sunrock Group and Chatham
Resources LLC has requested a legislative public hearing for an amendment to the Town of Goldston Watershed Map to add 639.66 acres of WS-IV PA watershed located o Goldston Glendon Road and Bonlee Carbonton Road (parcels 8335,74836,80056) to the map.
Alex Culpepper on behalf of Sunrock Group and Chatham
Resources LLC has requested a voluntary satellite annexation of 639.66 acres located o Goldston Glendon Road and Bonlee Carbonton Road, (Parcels 8335, 74836, 80056) in Chatham County NC.
Substantial changes may be made following the public hearing due to verbal or written comments received or based on the Board’s discussions.
Notice to people with special needs: If you have an audio or visual impairment, unique accessibility requirements or need language assistance, please call the number listed below prior to the hearing and assistance may be provided.
If you have any questions or comments concerning these issues, please call Hunter Glenn with the Chatham County Planning Department at 542-8284 or write to P.O. Box 54, Pittsboro N.C. 27312. Please run in your paper: August 1st and 8th
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NORTH CAROLINA CHATHAM COUNTY FILE#24E001395-180
The undersigned, KRISTIN L. GOSZTONYI, having quali ed on the 23RD day of JULY 2024, as EXECUTOR of the Estate of THOMAS ALAN MCLAURIN, deceased, of Chatham County, North Carolina, does hereby notify all persons, rms and corporations having claims against said Estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 6TH Day of NOVEMBER 2024, or this Notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said Estate will please make immediate payment to the undersigned. This is the 8th Day of AUGUST 2024.
KRISTIN L. GOSZTONYI 640 N. PAGE ST. SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387
EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR Run dates: A8,15,22,29p
Cuban street dogs, like people, have a tough life
Cuban animals lead uncomfortable lives without vaccinations, vet visits and medications
By Erika Ho man For Chatham News & Record
IN THE AUTUMN of 2015, I took a trip to Cuba with a small group of American ladies. Although none of us knew each other before the trip, we had a common interest — writing.
For years, I’ve received C. Hope Clark’s newsletter for freelancers, Funds for Writers, where she informs us of writing opportunities, a list of literary agents, and the names of small publishers. Besides the practical side of the missive, she has a feature about sundry aspects of the craft. Sometimes, she posts writers’ retreats or conferences.
Mostly, I ignore the info regarding writing retreats because I’d rather sit in my comfortable study at home to compose my creations than nd myself in some random hotel room that might not be to my liking with meals that might not be my favorites with strangers I might not like and without my husband and without my dogs. I can write at home.
Yet one Friday, she posted something that took my fancy: It was about a trip to Cuba where we’d meet Cuban writers at di erent locales. A Cuban professor, Suzanne, would translate our pieces into Spanish and turn the Cubans’ essays into understandable English for us. Sign me up! I thought.
Besides seeing the sights of Havana and watching the old 1950s-era cars barrel along the street bordered by the sea wall, we’d travel to various venues in Cuba where we’d meet at bookstores, literary societies and restaurants to mingle and discuss our writings.
I’ll never forget sitting on folding chairs at Libreria Galindo in Santa Clara, not far from the Teatro La Caridad, listening to a Cuban author’s story about
a street dog. This stray became his loyal friend, which he said he didn’t deserve. He told us how he didn’t value this little dog’s life. At the end of his poignant tale about the hard life his street dog had endured, a cruel life, which is true in general for all animals in Cuba, he quipped, “In my next life, I want to come back as a dog — not just any dog — I want to be Paris Hilton’s dog.” We needed to laugh after the sad tale he’d just recited.
Street dogs in Cuba have it hard, as do the people. Horses, oxen, cattle and animals lead uncomfortable lives without the vaccinations, vet visits and medications we take for granted here.
Yet, this condition isn’t true for street dogs in South America, or at least not for the ones I saw in Argentina and Chile in 2023. In Chile, especially in Puerto Varas, the City of Roses, the friendly street dogs are community dogs; bowls of water and food are set out for them. They look cared for. These strays are gentle and all seem like someone’s beloved pet. They even get veterinarian care, I was told.
I noticed how dogs hang out and are fed at the sh market,
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Charleston and Savannah, Georgia, were deluged into Tuesday, with curfews set and roads blocked by police. Dozens of roads were closed in the city of Charleston because of ooding similar to what it sees several times a year because of rising sea levels.
As Debby swirls just o shore, the heavy rain is expected to move into parts of South and North Carolina that have already seen two billion-dollar oods in eight years.
In one Savannah neighborhood, reghters used boats to evacuate some residents and waded through oodwaters to deliver bottled water and other supplies to those who refused to leave.
Michael Jones said water gushed into his home Monday evening, overturning the refrigerator and causing furniture to oat. Outside, the water seemed to be everywhere and was too deep to ee safely. So Jones spent a sleepless night on his kitchen table before re ghters going door to door came in a boat Tuesday morning.
“It was hell all night,” Jones said.
In Charleston, Mayor William Cogswell said the road closures have kept businesses and homes from unnecessary damage and avoided the need for any high-water rescues.
“We especially don’t need any yahoos driving through the water and causing damage to properties,” Cogswell said.
Up to 15 inches of rain was expected in some places in the Carolinas, totals that are close to what the region saw in a historic ood from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Two years later, many of those records were broken during Hurricane Florence. Both storms killed dozens.
North Carolina and Virginia have both declared a state of emergency.
Several areas along North Carolina’s coastline are prone to ooding, such as Wilmington and the Outer Banks. Virginia could see impacts including strong winds, heavy rains and ooding.
Debby’s center was about 90 miles east of Savannah on Wednesday morning, according to a bulletin from the National Hurricane Center. It had maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and was heading east at 5 mph.
“Tropical cyclones always produce heavy rain, but normally as they’re moving, you know, it doesn’t accumulate that much in one place,” said Richard Pasch, of the hurricane center. “But when they move very slowly, that’s the worst situation.”
There will be lulls in the rain as dry spells appear between bands around the center of the poorly organized storm, forecasters said. But some bands will be heavy and keep moving over the same places.
Green Pond in rural Colleton County, South Carolina, reported the most rain so far, just over 14 inches. A nearby dam had water run over its top but did not crumble, while trees and washouts blocked a number of roads, county Fire-Rescue Assistant Chief David Greene said.
Close to a foot fell down-coast from Charleston to Savannah, where the National Weather Service reported 6.68 inches just on Monday. That’s already a month’s worth in a single day: In all of August 2023, the city got 5.56 inches.
Tornadoes knocked down trees and damaged a few homes on Kiawah Island and Edisto Island.
Crooked Hammock Brewery in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, decided to close early Tuesday.
“Flash ooding is super unpredictable, and we’d rather our sta and guests be home and safe,” marketing coordinator Georgena Dimitriadis said.
Far to the north in New York City, heavy storms that meteorologists said were being enhanced by Debby ooded some streets and expressways, stranding motorists. The weather service issued a ood watch until noon Wednesday for the entire city.
The storm carried the threat not only of additional rainfall but also of tornadoes in coastal sections of the Carolinas.
especially in Puerto Montt, Chile. Not just the dogs! I saw an enormous seal jump into the dumpster out back to feast on the catch of the day, the scraps of the day’s catch. In the famed Recoleta Cemetery of Buenos Aires (where the rich or illustrious, like Eva Peron, are buried), unleashed, ownerless dogs parade the boulevards among the huge marble memorials. Again, they seemed healthy — not mangy, ee-ridden, or sad.
I think you can gauge the wealth of a nation or at least the gentleness of a country’s people if you look at the cows in the pastures, the horses behind the paddocks and the dogs walked or carried.
Come to think of it, I’d love to be judged as a person by how I treat my dogs. You’d probably regard me more favorably if you evaluated me using this measure — how I care for my dachshunds — rather than if you rated me on other aspects of my nature, like how uncooperative I am if someone tries to take a spoonful of my mint chip double dip, walnut-drenched, hot fudge sundae with a cherry on top. Nope. I won’t even part with the cherry!
Emergency o cials warned of potential ash ooding, ying drones with loudspeakers in some New York City neighborhoods to tell people in basement apartments to be ready to ee at a moment’s notice.
Debby made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Monday along the Gulf Coast of Florida.
At least six people have died due to the storm, ve of them in tra c accidents or from fallen trees. The sixth death involved a 48-year-old man in Gulfport, Florida, whose body was recovered after his anchored sailboat partially sank, WTSP-TV reported.
About 500 people were rescued Monday from ooded homes in Sarasota, Florida, police said. Just north of Sarasota, Manatee County o cials said more than 200 people were rescued.
O cials said it may take two weeks to fully assess the damage in parts of north-central Florida as they wait for rivers to crest.
“You’re going to see the tributaries rise. That’s just inevitable. How much? We’ll see,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday. “It may be that it’s not ooded today and it could be ooded tomorrow.”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp also warned of more rain and ooding to come, saying, “Do not let this storm lull you to sleep.”
President Joe Biden approved emergency declarations making federal disaster assistance available to Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
Debby is nally forecast to pick up speed Thursday, and it could move up the middle of North Carolina, through Virginia and into the Washington area by Saturday.
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O cials banned NIL activities for public schools in June
By Asheebo Rojas
Chatham News & Record
WITH NAME, IMAGE and likeness at the prep level quickly spreading across the United States, North Carolina High School Athletic Association representatives met with the State Board of Education on July 31 about what to consider should NIL be allowed for the state’s high school athletes.
Alongside a slideshow presentation, NCHSAA Commissioner Que Tucker and Tod Morgan, the chair of the NCHSAA NIL Committee, spoke about what they’ve found in the NIL policies of other states, including potential concerns and solutions, and what an NIL policy would mean for high school sports.
One of the biggest points from the presentation is what an NIL policy wouldn’t be.
“It’s not about pay to play,” Tucker emphasized in the meeting.
“It’s about using your name, your image and your likeness because you own it.” Morgan emphasized a need to separate NIL on the college level, which has been a major factor in recruiting talent, to NIL on the high school level.
“We’re just trying to put something in place that would protect our student-athletes across our state and yet give them an opportunity to make a side business, entrepreneurial-type venture using their name, image and likeness,” Morgan said.
Based on the NCHSAA’s research, Morgan said the average high school NIL deal was between $60 and $120 with three to four hours of time committed to the deal.
“Very few, I mean less than 1%, are that high, high level of student-athlete that is going to be big time,” Morgan said.
Opportunities to make money also comes with opportunities to make either good or bad decisions when it comes to a player’s nancial standing or eligibility. For those concerns, Tucker and Morgan talked about the importance of implementing resources that would best inform students and their families about the implications of a deal.
“When we looked at all of this, we talked about nancial education,” Tucker said. “We want to make sure that our student athletes are not being exploited. You want to make sure that in any type of a situation that our students nd themselves in, and it seems unethical, that there is the opportunity for the students and their parents to discuss it.”
Said Morgan, “I think we have to have some parameters in place to make sure there’s accountability and make sure there’s transparency as Commissioner Tucker talked about, so that the principal, athletic director and the coach of the school is aware of these things going on.”
With the current high school NIL landscape in North Carolina and the states that border it, student-athletes now have more reason to leave their schools for
the opportunity to make money.
The State Board of Education banned public school athletes from participating in NIL activities with a new amateurism policy adopted in June, a ecting the NCHSAA which governs hundreds of public schools.
The new policy didn’t a ect the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association, though, which did approve an NIL policy for the 2024-25 school year in February.
This di erence in NIL policy has brought concerns about more athletes, especially the top talent, moving away from local public schools and going to NCISAA private schools for monetary reasons. However, Tucker said in the meeting that’s not the point of the NCISAA’s NIL policy.
See NIL, page B4
The new season will begin Aug. 12
By Asheebo Rojas Chatham News & Record
THE 2024 high school volleyball season will begin Monday, setting o what should be another exciting year for volleyball fans in Chatham County. All six county teams are coming o playo appearances from last year and will look to build on their respective successes.
Some programs lost all-conference caliber players to graduation, including, but not limited to Kelsey Hussey (Chatham Central), Jillian Rogers (Northwood) and Janeryra Guerro-Jaimes (Jordan-Matthews). But with last year’s rosters being quite young, there will be plenty of familiar and talented athletes coming back.
Before those athletes hit the court for another season, here’s a look at each team’s
Brendan Harrington is returning to App State for his sixth year
By Asheebo Rojas Chatham News & Record
FORMER NORTHWOOD
Brendan Harrington was named to the East-West Shrine Bowl 1,000 watchlist ahead of the 2024 college football season. East-West Shrine Bowl scouts put together a list of the 1,000 best players eligible for
the all-star game and the 2025 NFL Draft across all levels of college football. Harrington, a redshirt senior outside linebacker at App State, made the list for the second time in his career after being named to the all-star game watchlist before the 2022 season. He was one of four Mountaineers selected for the watchlist, joining receiver Kaedin Robinson,
Chatham County ended its inaugural season with a 10-6 overall record
By Asheebo Rojas Chatham News & Record
A LONG WAY from its usual playing grounds in the Triangle, Chatham County Post 292’s inaugural season in the USA Softball 19 and Under Heroes League met the end of the road on July 30.
In the Heroes League 19U North Carolina state championship tournament held at Big League Camp in Marion, Post 292 dropped its rst two games in a double-elimination bracket. Chatham County fell to the Cabarrus Responders, 8-5, in the opening game on July 29 and followed that with a 9-5 loss to South Wake the next day.
Against the Responders, Chatham County found early success at the plate, but it couldn’t sustain it down the stretch.
Jaylee Williams had the best o ensive game for Post 292, leading the way with three hits in four at-bats, two RBIs and the leado single that eventually turned into a 1-0 lead for Chatham County by the middle of the rst inning.
Shortly after Post 292’s Emma Burke knocked in its second run with a double in the top of the second inning, Williams delivered again with a two-RBI triple that gave Chatham County a 4-0 advantage. However, other than a solo home run from Dakota Redmon in the top of the third inning and another triple from Williams, Post 292’s bats went cold for the rest of the game.
Cabarrus pitcher Vivian Billiard entered the game for Abby Reagan in the fourth inning and gave Post 292’s batters a hard time, allowing just one hit and striking out three batters in three innings.
Down 5-3 entering its third-inning batting turn, the Responders settled into an o ensive groove led by Kristen Embler and Billiard. Both batters recorded three hits with Billiard also knocking in three RBIs. After both singled to tie the game at ve runs apiece in the third inning, they also came up big in the fth inning as both contributed to Cabarrus’ four straight singles that led to the Responders taking an 8-5 lead and eventually winning the game.
Facing elimination against South Wake the next day, Chatham County dealt with a similar problem as it did in its previous loss.
After taking a 5-2 lead by the middle of the second inning, Chatham County’s hot start once again zzled. Two walks, three hits and a batter hit by a pitch in the bottom of the second helped South Wake regain control of the game with an 8-5 lead.
Despite the team continuing to get runners on base, Chatham County left four runners stranded from the third to seventh innings. Failing to bring runners home ended up being the difference for Post 292 as Redmon did her best to slow down South Wake. In the last four innings, Redmon allowed just one hit, one run and retired six batters.
Although the two tough losses weren’t the ideal nish for Post 292’s inaugural campaign, the team’s positive attitude and approach to the season made the summer weeknight trips to elds all over the Triangle worth it.
Post 292 gave some of the best current and former softball players in Chatham County (and surrounding areas) a chance to sharpen their skills in an environment much less intense than the high school or college season.
“We didn’t really know what to expect,” Lili Hicks said after Post 292’s win over Randolph County on July 17. “But once we got out there, it was like, ‘OK, this is fun.’ Everybody knows what they’re doing, so we just go out there and play.”
Throughout the season, players and coaches shared that the lack of pressure is was a key reason to why the season was “fun.”
Post 292 didn’t always need much extra motivation anyway as it nished its rst season with a 10-6 overall record despite having key pieces missing in some of the games.
For the rising college sophomores that are aging out and the rising college freshmen, this season was also rewarding because it gave them another chance to play with old teammates.
“I’m excited I played because I got to play with Lili and all of my teammates from (Jordan-Matthews) even though I didn’t think I was going to again,” Logan Gunter said.
Said Williams, a rising sophomore at App State, “Coming back and playing with girls I played with pretty much all my life is really fun. I’m excited to go back to (App State), but coming home was just really what I needed.”
According to team manager Preston Parks, there are plans of bringing Chatham County Post 292 back for next summer.
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The Phenom 919 showcase will be at Northwood on Dec. 20-21
By Asheebo Rojas Chatham News & Record
NORTHWOOD WILL host and compete in the Phenom 919 Showcase, a boys’ high school basketball event by Phenom Hoops featuring some of the best teams in the Triangle, on Dec. 20-21.
Phenom Hoops is an NCAA compliant scouting service that provides exposure for North Carolina’s high school basketball athletes and gives them opportunities to play in front of college coaches and scouts through its camps, tournaments and showcases.
According to Phenom Hoops president Rick Lewis, the other teams participating include Cardinal Gibbons, Chapel Hill, East Chapel Hill, Garner, GRACE Christian (Raleigh), Holly Springs, Jordan, Leesville Road, New Hanover, Ravenscroft, Southern Wake Academy and Trinity Academy.
The Chargers will play two games in the 919 Showcase. They’ll face Grace Christian on Dec. 20 at 8 p.m. and Holly Springs the next day at 7:30 p.m.
Both games should bring solid competition for a Northwood squad that isn’t a stranger to hosting unfamiliar yet talented opponents. Last season, the Chargers hosted a star-studded
Myers Park team in the middle of conference play and kept it a close game in the rst half, but they couldn’t overcome the Mustangs’ explosive third quarter despite outplaying Myers Park in the nal period. This year, Northwood will have more chances to defend its court against some of the state’s best.
In the 2023-24 season, Grace Christian went 27-8 and reached the third round of the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association 3A
playo s. The Eagles lost their leading scorer, Quasim Oden, to graduation, but they’ll return junior Michael Phillips Jr., a 6-foot-6 shooting guard who averaged 16.2 points and 6.4 rebounds a game last year.
Holly Springs, a 4A opponent in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association, is also coming o a solid 2023 -24 campaign in which it went 18-9 and lost in the rst round of the state playo s. Returning key pieces in Southeast Wake 4A conference player of the year
Will James Jr., Josiah Currie and forward Jake Cackovic, the Golden Hawks added 6-foot-6 guard Kody Frey from Apex to its already loaded back court.
For fans in Chatham County looking to check out some high-level basketball outside of Northwood, there’s plenty of other interesting matchups on the showcase’s schedule.
New Hanover, last season’s NCHSAA 4A runner-ups led by returning leading scorers Rodmik Allen and Nolan Billings, will face o against Jordan on
The number of teams scheduled to play in the showcase
Dec. 20 and Grace Christian on Dec. 21.
Southern Wake Academy, one of last year’s best 1A teams and a conference foe of Chatham Charter and Woods Charter, will have a huge test against Cardinal Gibbons on Dec 21. Cardinal Gibbons, a 4A program, made it to the third round of the state playo s last year and will be led by 6-foot-6 guard Trey Jones and 6-foot-8 forward Cash McSweeney.
Here’s the full schedule of the Phenom 919 Showcase:
Dec. 20
Leesville Road vs. Trinity Academy (5 p.m.); Jordan vs. New Hanover (6:30 p.m.); Northwood vs. Grace Christian (8 p.m.)
Dec. 21 East Chapel Hill vs. Trinity Academy (noon); Chapel Hill vs. Ravenscroft (1:30 p.m.); Cardinal Gibbons vs. Southern Wake Academy (3 p.m.); Garner vs. Jordan (4:30 p.m.); New Hanover vs. Grace Christian (6 p.m.); Northwood vs. Holly Springs (7:30 p.m.)
Jaylee Williams earns athlete of the week honors for the week of July 29.
In the USA Softball Heroes League 19 and Under North Carolina state tournament, Williams put on a stellar performance from the plate for Chatham County Post 292. She went 3-for-4, including two triples and recorded two RBIs in Post 292’s loss to the Cabarrus Responders in the tournament opener.
Williams is entering her sophomore year at App State where she plays in the out eld. She appeared in just four games in the spring and recorded three runs throughout her freshman season. Before going to App State, Williams was an all-conference softball player at Chatham Central, and she was named the 2023 Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference softball player of the year.
schedule and matchups to look out for.
Seaforth
Aug. 13 (vs. Apex Friendship); Aug. 15 (at Graham): Aug. 20 (vs. Cummings); Aug. 21 (vs. Carrboro); Aug. 22 (at Chatham Central); Aug. 27 (vs. Northwood); Aug 29 (vs. North Moore); Sept. 3 (at Southeast Alamance); Sept. 5 (vs. Jordan-Matthews); Sept. 10 (at Bartlett Yancey); Sept. 11 (at Union Pines); Sept 12 (vs. Orange); Sept. 16 (at Cummings); Sept. 17 (vs. Graham); Sept. 18 (vs. Chapel Hill); Sept. 24 (vs. Chatham Central); Sept. 26 (at Northwood); Oct. 1 (at North Moore); Oct. 2 (at East Chapel Hill); Oct. 3 (vs. Southeast Alamance); Oct. 8 (at Jordan-Matthews); Oct. 10 (vs. Bartlett Yancey)
Northwood
Aug. 13 (vs. North Moore); Aug. 14 (at Western Alamance); Aug. 15 (at Southeast Alamance); Aug. 19. (at Union Pines); Aug. 20 (vs. Jordan-Matthews); Aug. 22 (at Bartlett Yancey); Aug. 27 (at Seaforth); Aug. 29 (vs. Graham); Sept. 3 (at Cummings); Sept. 4 (vs. Southern Alamance); Sept. 5 (vs. Chatham Central); Sept. 17 (vs. Southeast Alamance); Sept. 18 (vs. Lee County); Sept. 19 (at Jordan-Matthews); Sept. 24 (vs. Bartlett Yancey); Sept. 25 (at Lee County); Sept. 26 (vs. Seaforth); Oct. 1 (at Graham); Oct. 2 (at Southern Alamance); Oct. 8 (at Chatham Central)
Jordan-Matthews
Aug. 12 (at Trinity); Aug. 13 (at Cummings); Aug. 15 (vs. Chatham Central); Aug. 19 (vs. Wheatmore); Aug. 20 (at Northwood); Aug. 26 (vs. Asheboro); Aug. 27 (at Southeast Alamance); Aug. 29 (vs. Eastern Randolph); Sept. 3 (vs. Bartlett Yancey); Sept. 5 (at Seaforth); Sept. 10 (vs. Graham); Sept. 11 (at North Moore); Sept. 12 (vs. Cummings); Sept. 17 (at Chatham Central); Sept. 19 (vs. Northwood); Sept. 24 (vs. North Moore); Sept. 26 (vs. Southeast Alamance); Sept. 30 (at Wheatmore); Oct. 3 (at Bartlett Yancey); Oct. 8 (vs. Seaforth); Oct. 9 (at Eastern Randolph); Oct. 10 (at Graham)
Chatham Central
Aug. 12 (vs. Wheatmore); Aug. 13 (vs. Southeast Alamance); Aug. 15 (at Jordan-Matthews); Aug. 20 (at Bartlett Yancey); Aug. 21 (at Lee County); Aug. 22 (vs. Seaforth); Aug. 27 (at Graham); Aug. 29 (vs. Cummings); Sept. 4 (vs. Lee County); Sept. 5 (at Northwood); Sept. 10 (vs. North Moore); Sept. 11 (vs. Eastern Randolph); Sept. 12 (at Southeast Alamance); Sept. 16 (at Wheatmore); Sept. 17 (vs. Jordan-Matthews); Sept. 19 (Bartlett Yancey); Sept. 24 (at Seaforth); Sept. 26 (vs. Graham);
Oct. 1 (at Cummings); Oct. 2 (at Eastern Randolph); Oct. 8 (vs. Northwood); Oct. 10 (at North Moore)
Woods Charter
Aug. 12 (at Franklin Academy); Aug. 15 (vs. Eno River); Aug. 19 (at East Wake Academy); Aug. 22 (at River Mill); Aug. 27 (vs. Chatham Charter); Aug. 29 (at Oxford Prep); Sept. 3 (vs. Ascend Leadership); Sept. 5 (vs. Triangle Math & Science ); Sept. 6 (vs. Roxboro Community); Sept. 12 (vs. Southern Wake Academy); Sept. 17 (vs. River Mill); Sept. 19 (at Chatham Charter); Sept. 23 (at Southern Wake Academy); Sept. 26 (at Ascend Leadership); Oct. 1 (at Triangle Math & Science); Oct. 2 (vs. Clover Garden School); Oct. 8 (at Southern Wake Academy); Oct. 9 (vs. Oxford Prep)
Chatham Charter
Aug. 12 (at Uwharrie Charter); Aug. 13 (vs. Central Carolina Academy); Aug. 14 (vs. North Moore); Aug. 20 (vs. Eastern Randolph); Aug. 22 (vs. Research Triangle); Aug. 27 (at Woods Charter); Aug. 29 (vs. Triangle Math & Science); Sept. 3 (at Clover Garden School); Sept. 4 (at Eastern Randolph); Sept. 5 (vs. Southern Wake Academy); Sept. 10 (at River Mill Academy); Sept. 12 (vs. Ascend Leadership); Sept. 17 (at North Moore); Sept. 19 (vs. Woods Charter); Sept. 24 (at Triangle Math & Science); Sept. 26 (vs. Clover Garden School); Oct. 1 (at Southern Wake Academy); Oct. 3 (vs. River Mill)
Seaforth at Union Pines (Sept. 11) and Seaforth vs. Orange (Sept. 11)
The highly talented Seaforth squad will have back-to-back midseason tests against two 3A opponents. Last year, the Hawks lost to both Union Pines and Orange by a score of 3-1. Getting another chance at the two teams will be an opportunity to see just how good Seaforth can be down the road.
Jordan-Matthews vs. Chatham Central (Aug. 15 and Sept. 17)
Last year’s meetings between the Jets and the Bears both went ve sets as the rivalry game not only was for bragging rights but also for positioning in the conference standings. Considering what’s at stake, this matchup could make for some of the most competitive intra-county action this season.
Woods Charter vs. Roxboro Community (Sept. 6)
Roxboro Community eliminated Woods from the playo s last year and was two of the Wolves’ two losses all season. Woods will be looking for revenge in what could be another preview of this coming season’s playo s.
Standing at 6-foot-1 and 230 pounds, Harrington is entering his sixth college season after missing most of the last two seasons due to consecutive season-ending injuries.
He made an immediate impact at App State, playing in 11 games as a true freshman in 2019, but he blossomed into a starter the next year. In 2020, Harrington was a key contributor on the Mountaineers’ defense, recording a career-high 48 tackles, four interceptions (tied for third in the Sun Belt) and four tackles for loss.
“He’s one of the most productive players on our football team as far as stops, interceptions, tackles for loss, sacks,” App State head coach Shawn Clark said in 2020. “He’s all the right things.” Harrington’s career took a pause after su ering a sea-
“(The NCISAA) are like us,” Tucker said. “They are not interested in their schools recruiting (students) to come and play here and leave that school. That’s not how their policy is set up, and it’s not set up so that that independent school will be able to say to (students), ‘We’ll pay you this amount of money.’ Now, the independent schools can say to (students), ‘If you come to us, there will be some opportunities for you to sign an NIL deal.’”
Other states could also provide outside opportunities as Tennessee, Virginia and Geor-
son-ending injury in App State’s 2022 opener against UNC. He returned and started in the Mountaineers’ rst two games in 2023, but in the second game of the season against UNC, he su ered another season-ending injury in his knee.
Before college, Harrington participated in football, basketball and track at Northwood, and on the football eld, he was a playmaker on both sides of the ball. Harrington, an all-conference linebacker and running back, recorded 64 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, ve sacks and one interception while also putting up 840 rushing yards, 322 receiving yards and 18 touchdowns (16 rushing, two receiving) as a senior. Throughout his high school career, Harrington earned all-conference honors three times and was a two-time all-region selection. In his ju-
gia, three states that border North Carolina, all have policies that allow public school athletes to pro t o of NIL.
According to Nick Stevens at HighSchoolOT, the State Board of Education is expected to consider a permanent ruling on NIL as early as September. “NIL policy would follow years of discussion,” Tucker said. “That’s what we’ve done. We have listened to our sister states across the country, and our membership has said we need to do something so that we’re not caught trying to catch up to an issue that is in place.”
Silver says NBA, FIBA having ‘much more serious’ talks about growth in Europe
The commissioner wants to start an NBA-operated tournament or league
By Tim Reynolds
The Associated Press
VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was walking around a French neighborhood with his family earlier this week while visiting for the Paris Olympics and NBA jerseys were being worn by people everywhere he looked. Current ones, classic ones, he saw all kinds.
“Again, it reminds me just what the opportunity really is here,” Silver said.
The question now is how to best utilize that opportunity. The NBA is ramping up talks with FIBA, the sport’s global governing body, on how to best increase its competitive footprint in Europe either through an annual tournament or an NBA-operated league, Silver said.
Silver said the NBA has been holding discussions about the fu-
ture of basketball in Europe for decades. But the current conversations are pointed directly toward ful lling what the league thinks is the commercial and competitive potential of basketball in Europe, and now that the
league’s new media rights deals that begin with the 2025-26 season are complete the conversations with FIBA are “much more serious,” Silver said.
“We certainly haven’t made any de nitive decisions,” Silver said. “I
continue to believe there’s enormous opportunity here. It’s not something where we’ll transform a league structure in the short term. But I think that there’s an appetite among our team owners for additional investment in global basketball. We have a huge initiative in China. We have a huge initiative in Africa. Given the quality of the basketball here in Europe, it would seem to make sense that we should be doing something here as well.”
Silver said his trip to the Olympics provides him and deputy commissioner Mark Tatum a chance to talk with FIBA executives, league executives and other stakeholders about the future.
There’s no time frame, but the timing to do something never has made more sense, especially given that many NBA stars — including MVPs and NBA champions like Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic, the reigning scoring champion in Luka Doncic and the reigning rookie of the year in Victor Wembanyama — are from Europe. About 60 current NBA players are European, and that gure
nior season, Harrington also played defensive back, grabbing four interceptions. Harrington initially committed to UNC after receiving an o er from the Tar Heels before his senior season. But after former Carolina coach Larry Fedora was red, Harrington decommitted alongside other recruits in UNC’s 2019 class.
Now a veteran for the Mountaineers, Harrington is looking to bounce back and help lead the program to what would be its third Sun Belt Championship game appearance in four years.
App State hasn’t won the Sun Belt title game since 2019 and has lost in two appearances since (2021 and 2023). Harrington and the Mountaineers will kick o the 2024 season at home against East Tennessee State on Aug. 31 at 3:30 p.m.
“We have listened to our sister states across the country, and our membership has said we need to do something so that we’re not caught trying to catch up to an issue that is in place.”
Que Tucker, NCHSAA commissioner
represents roughly half of the league’s international lineup.
“We want to make sure we have a true grasp of the opportunity,” Silver said. “We’ll take the time we need to before we decide to move forward on any initiative.”
With an estimated 270 million basketball fans in Europe and a growing media market valued at more than $20 billion, it’s easy to understand why the NBA sees further growth potential.
“When we rst played a preseason game in France, there were zero players from France in the NBA. We now have 14, including the last two No. 1 picks,” Silver said.
And whatever the NBA’s decision is, Silver said it will not replace the current European basketball landscape.
“We certainly don’t want to do damage to the strong bones of the basketball infrastructure that are in place,” Silver said. “On the other hand, in terms of regional and pan-regional competition here in Europe, it would be my sense — and again, I’m still studying — that lots of investors are losing signi cant amounts of money every year. And while this isn’t just about money, most things that continue to lose money without a trajectory towards pro tability ultimately do not survive. And so, whatever we do here, I think it’s important that it’s additive to the European basketball structure.”
NBA
Former Hornet Hayward retires after 14 NBA seasons
Brownsburg, Ind.
Gordon Hayward, who nearly gave Butler a national title over Duke with a half-court shot that just missed on the nal play of the 2010 NCAA men’s basketball championship game, retired from the NBA after 14 seasons on Thursday. Hayward played for Utah, Boston, Charlotte and Oklahoma City, and he was an All-Star in 2017. He averaged 15.2 points in 835 career regular-season games and said he was looking forward to spending more time with his family. He joined the Hornets prior to the 2020-21 season and played there until he was traded in February 2024.
NASCAR
Montoya to make 1st Cup start since 2014, will drive for 23XI at Watkins Glen
Charlotte Juan Pablo Montoya will return to the Cup Series for the rst time since 2014 when he races for 23XI Racing at Watkins Glen International next month. 23XI is the team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. The team said Montoya would drive the No. 50 Toyota in support of Mobil 1’s 50th anniversary. Montoya was a Cup Series regular from 2007 to 2013. He will make his rst NASCAR Cup Series start since the 2014 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner has competed full-time in Formula One, CART, IndyCar and IMSA.
NFL
Hopkins won’t require surgery for knee injury
Nashville, Tenn.
Tennessee Titans coach
Brian Callahan says star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins won’t require surgery for a knee injury su ered in training camp. Callahan said Hopkins “will miss several weeks.” The rst-year coach did not detail the nature of the injury, which Hopkins su ered last week. The 32-year-old Hopkins was seen with a wrap on his left knee during practice.
A three-time All-Pro, Hopkins led the Titans last season with 75 receptions for 1,057 yards and seven touchdowns. Hopkins is expected to be the top target for quarterback Will Levis.
Kentucky gets 2 years of probation by NCAA after settling football infractions case Lexington, Ky.
Kentucky and the NCAA have reached a settlement over infractions that included 11 football players getting paid for work they did not perform in 2021 and ’22. It says the school agreed with the NCAA Committee on Infractions that some football players received impermissible bene ts and that rules violations took place in the school’s swimming program. Kentucky agreed to spend two years on probation, pay an undisclosed ne and vacate records of any games in which ineligible football players competed. The swimming infractions involved excessive practice and athletes not being given required days o .
The 37-year-old beat
Carlos Alcaraz in the nal
By Howared Fendrich The Associated Press
PARIS — For all of his Grand Slam championships and other titles, for all of his time at No. 1, Novak Djokovic really, really wanted an Olympic gold medal for Serbia, the last signi cant accomplishment missing from his glittering resume.
He nally got one at age 37, beating Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) in an enthralling and evenly matched men’s tennis singles nal at the 2024 Games.
“When I take everything into consideration, this probably is the biggest sporting success I ever had in my career,” said Djokovic, who didn’t drop a set in Paris and is the oldest man to win the Summer Games tennis title since 1908. “This kind of supersedes everything that
I imagined, that I hoped that I could experience, that I could feel.”
With margins so thin that any mistake felt as if it could tilt things, Djokovic was at his best when the stakes were highest, dominating each of the two tiebreakers against Alcaraz, who beat him in the Wimbledonnal three weeks ago.
“In the close moments, in the di cult situations, in the tiebreaks, he played an impressive game,” said silver medalist Alcaraz, the 21-year-old from Spain who sobbed, too, after falling short of becoming the youngest male singles gold medalist. “That’s why I saw that he’s hungry for the gold medal. He was going to go for it.”
Djokovic already owns a men’s-record 24 Grand Slam trophies and the most weeks spent atop in the rankings by any man or woman. He also already owned an Olympics medal, from 2008, but it was a
bronze — and he made it clear that simply wasn’t su cient. He kept talking over the past week, but also the past months, about what a priority the gold was for him — and Alcaraz said he kept hearing about it.
Until getting Paris bronze medalist Lorenzo Musetti of Italy on Friday, Djokovic was 0-3 in Olympic semi nals, losing to the gold winner each time: Rafael Nadal at Beijing in 2008, Andy Murray at London in 2012, and Alexander Zverev in Tokyo three years ago.
This time, Djokovic said, “I was ready.”
In Paris, wearing a gray sleeve over the right knee that required surgery for a torn meniscus two months ago, Djokovic faced Nadal in the second round and eliminated his longtime rival in straight sets.
The No. 1 seed Djokovic saved eight break points, No. 2 Alcaraz saved six. Pressure? Ha. What pressure?
“We both played at a very high level,” Djokovic said. “We really went toe-to-toe.”
In the second tiebreaker, after Djokovic laced a cross-court forehand winner on the run to cap a 10-shot point for a 3-2 lead, he waved his arms to encourage the folks standing and screaming. Soon, thanks to one last forehand winner, he had earned that prize he wanted, at long last.
When the Serbian national anthem nished ringing out, Djokovic reached for his gold and brought it to his lips for a kiss.
Was he worried that moment would never arrive?
“There are always doubts. Absolutely, I had doubts,” Djokovic said. “But the belief and the conviction that I can make it is stronger than my doubts. It always has been. I knew that it’s going to happen. It was just a matter of when it’s going to happen.”
He shot 62 to become the second straight American to win men’s golf gold
By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-
YVELINES, France — Scottie
Sche er was a model of calm and greatness as he delivered the greatest closing round of his career. The nal two hours were about charges and collapses, pure theater that ended Sunday with the Olympic gold medal ttingly draped around the neck of golf’s No. 1 player.
It was only when Sche er stood on the top podium, when the nal few bars of the national anthem belted out across Le Golf National, that he lost control.
The medal dangling beneath his right hand xed across his chest, Sche er raised his left arm to cover the sobs.
Four shots behind to start the nal round, six shots behind early on the back nine, Sche er birdied ve of six holes down the stretch and matched the course record with a 9-under 62 for a one-shot victory over Tommy Fleetwood.
“It’s been a long week. It’s been a challenging week. I played some great golf today, and I’m proud to be going home with a medal,” Sche er said.
“These guys played tremendous golf, and I think we should all be proud of the golf that we played this week.”
There was the remarkable surge by Sche er, who shot 29 on the back nine, and the relentless play of Fleetwood (66) and Hideki Matsuyama.
And there was a stunning collapse by Jon Rahm, who saw a four-shot lead disappear in two holes and his hopes vanish with
a double bogey; by Rory McIlroy, one shot behind until hitting wedge into the water; and by Xander Schau ele, the PGA and British Open champion.
In the end, it was Sche er. Already a six-time winner on the PGA Tour this year, including his second Masters title, Sche er added Olympic gold to an astonishing season with a round that kept the sellout crowd on edge for a wild conclusion. He set an Olympic record for 72 holes at 19-under 265. Sche er becomes the second straight American to win gold in men’s golf, following Schauf-
fele in the Tokyo Games. It was all such a blur that Sche er didn’t even know where he stood.
“I saw that Rahm had gotten to 20-under, and so I kind of changed a little bit mentally to just really try to do my best to move my way up the leaderboard, and at one point I didn’t even really know if I was in contention or not,” Sche er said.
“I just tried to do my best to make some birdies and start moving up and maybe get a medal or something like that just because Jon is such a great player.” When he nally got a look at
a leaderboard, Sche er was in the fairway on the par-4 15th and hit wedge to a foot. That got him within one. Then came his tee shot to 8 feet for birdie on the par-3 17th. And the winner turned out to be an 8-iron he gouged out of the rough to 18 feet for a fourth straight birdie and his rst lead of the week.
“He’s been piling up trophies left and right and he keeps moving away from what is the pack of people chasing him in the world,” Schau ele said. “When I take my competitive hat o and put my USA patriot hat on, I’m very happy that we won another gold medal.”
‘The
Groundbreaking lms including, “Blade Runner” and “E.T.,” were released
By Mike Householder
Press
The Associated
THE MOMENTS are seared into the pop culture pantheon — and our collective consciousness.
A friendly alien taking Henry Thomas’ character Elliott on an airborne bike ride with the full moon as a backdrop in “E.T.”
Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke) in “Poltergeist” getting out of bed, staring into a pulsating TV screen, turning to her family and warning: “They’re here.” Arnold Schwarzenegger’s titular hero, Conan the Barbarian, succinctly lists what is best in life for his compatriots: “To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And hear the lamentation of their women.”
Former Entertainment Weekly lm critic Chris Nashawaty walks readers through the signi cance (and making) of each of the lms, as well as ve other science ction/fantasy classics —
“Blade Runner,” “Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior,” “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” “The Thing” and “Tron” — that, incredibly, were released within two months of each other in the summer of 1982.
In the ultra-entertaining and
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‘The Future Was Now: Madmen, Maverick, and the Summer Sci-Fi Abducted Hollywood’ by Chris Nashawaty
informative “The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982,” Nashawaty makes the case that the octet of icks altered the trajectory of Hollywood lmmaking, not only of the auteurs at the helm but also of Hollywood lmmaking. “The summer of 1982 was when sci- , fantasy, and splashy blockbusters ripped from the pages of comic books would grow up,” Nashawaty writes. “These
lms could no longer be nonchalantly dismissed as kids’ stu . They became the harbingers of a new era and eventually the most dominant force in popular entertainment.” Sure, his thesis is solid. But it’s not what makes “The Future Was Now” a great read. The behind-the-scenes intrigue does that.
Nashawaty digs deep into the history of how these groundbreaking lms got—and were— made. Perhaps most fascinating is the tale of burgeoning cinema maestro Steven Spielberg leading his young charges through the lming of the now-classic “E.T.” and more or less taking over the production of “Poltergeist,” a much di erent kind of lm that is now considered to be a landmark in the horror genre.
Add in the complex origins of the “Star Trek” and “Mad Max” sequels, plus Ridley Scott’s odyssey in transforming a Philip K. Dick novel into the big-screen cult classic “Blade Runner,” and you’ve got a must-read for any cinephile.
The summer of ‘82 paved “the way for our current all-blockbusters-all-the-time era,” Nashawaty writes.
But the real treat is having a front-row seat as the author’s painstaking research and expert recounting bring to life how these silver-screen gems came to be.
Thoreau’s “Walden” published, WWII ends, Ford sworn in
The Associated Press
AUG. 9
1173: Construction began on the campanile of Pisa Cathedral—better known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
1854: Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described his experiences while living near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, was published.
1945: U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device over Nagasaki; the bombing and subsequent radiation poisoning killed an estimated 74,000 people.
1969: Actor Sharon Tate and four other people were found brutally slain at Tate’s Los Angeles home by cult leader Charles Manson’s followers.
1974: Gerald Ford took the oath of o ce to become U.S. president after Richard Nixon’s resignation; in a speech following, Ford declared that “our long national nightmare is over.”
AUG. 10
1792: During the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked
the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason and executed.)
1821: Missouri became the 24th state admitted to the Union.
1945: A day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surrender.
1969: Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actor Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1977: Postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being the “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area.
1993: Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
AUG. 11
1860: The nation’s rst successful silver mill began operation near Virginia City, Nevada.
1919: Germany’s Weimar Constitution was signed by President Friedrich Ebert.
1956: Abstract painter Jackson Pollock, 44, died.
1965: Rioting and looting
that claimed 34 lives broke out in the predominantly black Watts section of Los Angeles.
1992: Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping-entertainment center, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.
2014: Academy Award-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams, 63, died.
AUG. 12
1909: The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home to the Indianapolis 500, rst opened.
1953: The Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its rst hydrogen bomb.
AUG. 13
1961: East Germany sealed o the border between Berlin’s eastern and western sectors before building a wall dividing the city for 28 years.
1521: Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.
1846: The American ag was raised in Los Angeles for the rst time.
1910: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, died in London at age 90.
1995: Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle died at a Dallas hospital of rapidly spreading liver cancer; he was 63.
2004: TV chef Julia Child died in Montecito, California, two days before she turned 92.
AUG. 14
1848: The Oregon Territory was created.
1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
1945: President Harry S. Truman announced that Imperial Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending World War II.
1997: An unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was formally sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ breaks records, ‘Purple Crayon’ disappoints critics
The Marvel blockbuster’s $395.6 million two-week total surpassed the 20-year reign of “The Passion of the Christ”
By Jake Coyle The Associated Press
NEW YORK — After 10 days in theaters, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is already the highest-grossing R-rated movie ever, not accounting for in ation.
In its second weekend, the Marvel Studios blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman continued to steamroll through movie theaters, collecting $97 million according to studio estimates Sunday. That raised its two-week total to $395.6 million, pushing it past the long-reigning top R-rated feature, “The Passion of the Christ,” which held that mark for 20 years with $370 million domestic.
Worldwide, the Shawn Levydirected “Deadpool & Wolverine” has quickly amassed $824.1 million in ticket sales, surpassing the global hauls of the rst two “Deadpool” lms. The 2016 original grossed $782.6 million worldwide; the 2018 sequel collected $734.5 million.
The weekend’s primary challengers both struggled.
M. Night Shyamalan’s latest
thriller, “Trap,” opened modestly at $15.6 million at 3,181 theaters for Warner Bros. The lm, starring Josh Hartnett as a serial killer hunted by police at a pop concert, didn’t screen for critics before opening day and scored lower in reviews (48% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) than Shyamalan’s lms typically do.
“This is a soft opening for an M. Night Shyamalan suspense crime thriller,” wrote David A.
Gross, a lm consultant who publishes a newsletter for Franchise Entertainment. “The writer/director’s movies out-earn other original thrillers by a wide margin, and that’s true here, but this start is not on the level of recent Shyamalan lms.”
The live-action “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” adapted from the classic kid’s book, also didn’t make much of a mark in theaters. The Sony Pictures release de-
buted with $6 million. It got dinged by critics (28% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), though audiences (an A—CinemaScore) liked it more.
“Twisters,” the Universal Pictures disaster lm, continues to do well at the box o ce. It held second place with $22.7 million in its third weekend. Lee Isaac Chung’s sequel to the 1996 original, starring Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos, has raised $195.6 mil-
lion domestically. While it has made less of an impression overseas, “Twisters” holds particularly well in North American theaters, down just 35% from the week prior.
Hollywood closed July with its best month in a year and its rst $1 billion month since July 2023.
While comparisons to last year aren’t favorable — July was when “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” launched — a pair of Walt Disney Co. releases in “Inside Out 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine” (the two top lms of the year) powered a banner month for the movie industry.
According to Comscore, ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters were estimated. Domestic gures were released on Monday.
1. “Deadpool & Wolverine,” $97 million 2. “Twisters,” $22.7 million 3. “Trap,” $15.6 million 4. “Despicable Me 2,” $11.3 million 5. “Inside Out 2,” $6.7 million 6. “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” $6 million 7. “Longlegs,” $4.1 million 8. “A Quiet Place: Day One,” $1.4 million 9. “Daaru Na Peenda Hove,” $615,782 10. “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” $600,000.
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The Associated Press Aug. 9: Jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette is 82. Comedian David Steinberg is 82. Actor Sam Elliott is 80. Singer Barbara Mason is 77. Actor Melanie Gri th is 67. Rapper Kurtis Blow is 65. “Today” co-host Hoda Kotb is 60. Actor Gillian Anderson (“The X-Files”) is 56. Actor Eric Bana (“Star Trek,” ″The Hulk”) is 56. Aug. 10: Actor James Reynolds (“Days of Our Lives”) is 78. Singer- utist Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is 77. Mandolin player Gene Johnson of Diamond Rio is 75. Singer Patti Austin is 74. Actor Rosanna Arquette is 65. Actor Antonio Banderas is 64. Drummer Jon Farriss of INXS is 63. Aug. 11: Country singer John Conlee is 78. Singer Eric Carmen is 75. Wrestler-actor Hulk Hogan is 71. Singer Joe Jackson is 70. Actor Viola Davis (“How To Get Away With Murder,” ″The Help”) is 59. Actor-podcaster Joe Rogan (“Fear Factor,” ″NewsRadio”) is 57.. Hip-hop artist Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Lucy Pearl, A Tribe Called Quest) is 54. Actor Chris Hemsworth (“Tron,” ″The Avengers”) is 41. Aug. 12: Actor George Hamilton is 85. Actor Jennifer Warren is 83. Singer-guitarist Mark Knop er of Dire Straits is 75. Singer Kid Creole is 74. Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny is 70. Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 61. Actor Rebecca Gayheart is 53. Actor Casey A eck is 49. Aug. 13: Actor Kevin Tighe (“Emergency,” ″Murder One”) is 77. Opera singer Kathleen Battle is 73. Actor Danny Bonaduce (“The Partridge Family”) is 65. Actor John Slattery (“Mad Men,” ″Desperate Housewives”) is 59. Actor Debi Mazar is 57. Aug. 14: Country singer Connie Smith is 83. Actor-musician Steve Martin is 79. Actor Susan St. James is 78. Romance novelist Danielle Steel is 77. Cartoonist Gary Larson (“The Far Side”) is 74. Actor Jackee Harry (“Sister, Sister,” ″227″) is 68. Actor Halle Berry is 58.
“American Godfathers: The Five Families,” left, the lm “The Instigators,” center, and the docuseries “Hollywood Black” stream this week.
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NETFLIX’S “The Umbrella Academy” premieres its nal season. A heist goes wrong in a Boston set movie starring Matt Damon and Casey A eck, and “Dance Moms” is back on Lifetime. Also streaming this week: A four-part docuseries adapts historian Donald Bogle’s 2019 book “Hollywood Black” for MGM+, and “Not Not Jazz,” a documentary following the avant-garde, acid jazz-fusion band Medeski, Martin & Wood, becomes available to stream via video on demand.
MOVIES TO STREAM
A poorly planned heist goes wrong in “The Instigators” (Friday on Apple TV+), a loosely amiable Boston-set caper starring Matt Damon and Casey A eck. The movie, directed by Doug Liman (“Go,” “The Bourne Identity”), returns Damon and A eck to familiar hometown terrain. They play a despondent pair who try to steal money from a corrupt mayor (Ron Perlman) but ends up on the run with a therapist (Hong Chau) in tow. In my review, I called it “a rudderless but winningly shaggy action comedy.”
Je Nichols (“Mud,” “Take Shelter,” “Loving”) extends his survey of classically American dramas with “The Bikeriders,” a chronicle of a Chicago motorcycle club in the 1960s. In the lm (Friday on Peacock), Austin Butler and Tom Hardy star as riders with an antiauthoritarian streak who help found the Vandals but watch as their club grows beyond their control. In a male-populated lm, though, Jodie Comer, the heavily accented narrator, is closer to the main character. In my review, I called it “a vivid dramatization of the birth of an American subculture.”
This month, the Criterion Channel is running two overlapping series: one of movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and one of lms starring Philip Seymour Homan. Ho man was a mainstay in Anderson’s lms from the start (he steals “Hard Eight” with one scene) and a central presence in lms like “Magnolia,” “Punch-Drunk Love”
“Not Not Jazz,” about the revolutionary “avant-groove” band Medeski Martin & Wood streams Friday via video on demand.
and “The Master.” The Homan series also includes plenty of other highlights; look especially for the exquisitely tender 2010 drama “Jack Goes Boating.” The Anderson series also includes an exclusive streaming of the director’s radiant 2021 coming-of-age tale “Licorice Pizza,” which poignantly starred Ho man’s son, Cooper. MUSIC TO STREAM
Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Opus” — the posthumous album and documentary of the same name — was captured while the Japanese lm composer was dying of cancer. Across 20 songs, Sakamoto performs a collection of his biggest songs on piano, like the memorable themes for Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” and “The Sheltering Sky.” The album also in-
cludes the rst-ever recorded version of “Tong Poo,” from his early days with techno-pop trio Yellow Magic Orchestra. On Friday, Colombian reggaetónero J Balvin will release a new full-length project, “Rayo.” Across 15 tracks, he’s promised an album that hits like a house party — just in time for the hottest summer month. “Rayo” is stacked with good time collaborations — reggaetón superstar Fied, regional Mexican musician Carín León, Bad Gyal, Zion, Dei V, Ryan Castro, Blessd and Luar La L. The previously released singles “Gaga” with Saiko, “Polvo de tu Vida” with Chencho Corleone, and “En Alta” with Quevedo, Omar Courtz and Yovngchimi embody that spirit. At his party, everyone is invited. Also on Friday, “Not Not
Jazz,” a documentary following the avant-garde, acid jazz-fusion band Medeski, Martin & Wood, becomes available to stream via video on demand. The lm follows the improvisational trio as they endeavor to record a new album at the Allaire Studio in Woodstock, New York. It is a peek behind the curtain of their processes and a celebration of far too often underserved music.
SHOWS TO STREAM
The dramatic world of “Dance Moms” returns with a new coach, dancers, and invested moms. In “Dance Moms: A New Era,” mothers hover as eight girls are trained by instructor Glo Hampton, a.k.a. Miss Glo, to compete nationally. The original “Dance Moms” ran for eight seasons and fea-
tured breakout stars Jojo Siwa and Maddie Ziegler. It also introduced the world to coach Abby Lee Miller, who was often criticized for being too harsh on her students. “Dance Moms: A New Era” debuted on Lifetime Wednesday. Net ix’s “The Umbrella Academy” premiered its nal season on Thursday. The show follows a family of adopted superheroes — who were stripped of their powers in season three — who must work together to stop the apocalypse. Megan Mullally, Nick O erman and David Cross are new faces in season four alongside regulars David Castañeda, Tom Hopper and Elliot Page.
The musical cartoon for preschoolers “Yo Gabba Gabba!” is getting a reboot called “Yo Gabba GabbaLand!” on Apple TV+. The 10-episode series premieres Friday. Michael Imperioli, who played Tony Soprano’s protégé Christopher on “The Sopranos,” can’t shake the mob. He’s the executive producer and narrator of a three-part docuseries on ve Italian American families selected by Charles “Lucky” Luciano in 1931 to rule the organized crime world. “American Godfathers: The Five Families” debuts Sunday on The History Channel. It will also stream on The History Channel app.
A four-part docuseries adapts historian Donald Bogle’s 2019 book “Hollywood Black” for MGM+. Executive produced by Forest Whitaker, the series examines the history of cinema through the Black perspective. Creatives including Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae, LaKeith Staneld, Gabrielle Union, and Lena Waithe are interviewed. “Hollywood Black” premieres Sunday.
VIDEO GAMES TO PLAY
People who love collecting cute monsters and making them ght have long been drawn to Pokémon. This year’s Palworld upped the ante by adding guns to the mix. But what if you just want to cuddle? That’s where 11 Bit Studios’ Creatures of Ava comes in. You’re an explorer on a planet bustling with wildlife — but the creatures are being threatened by an infection called “the withering.” It’s your mission to tame the beasts with your magic ute and help them heal. It’s a cozier take on the old “gotta catch ‘em all” formula, and it comes to Xbox X/S and PC on Wednesday.