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[NC Emergency Management @NCEmergency]

At 1pm- your State Emergency Operations Center received a call for assistance from Granville County for assistance with a suspicious package. NC Hazmat Regional Response Team 4 from the @RaleighNCFire was deployed The package was quickly deemed safe and of no threat.

#ReadyNC

[WCHL & Chapelboro @WCHLChapelboro]

At its May 11 meeting, the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners voted to end the town's contract with Flock Safety, the company behind controversial Flock cameras.

Pittsboro Mayor Kyle Shipp joined us to discuss the meeting. Here's what he had to say on the board's decision:

[Thales Academy @Thales_Academy]

"Mrs. Keeley does a wonderful job promoting sportsmanship, perseverance, and respect for classmates." Thank you, Crystal Keeley, for being an Exceptional Educator at Thales Academy Pittsboro. Read her Spotlight here: https://t.co/ldHF4EiBkR

[Dr. Tyson Johnson @DrTMJohnson]

You can’t have a meeting in Pittsboro and not stop in the Chapel of Hill… #20YearsLater

[Sugarpuss O'Shea @SugarpussOShea1]

Allen & Son in Pittsboro. There used to be another branch in Chapel Hill, but it closed in 2018. I haven’t been there for a while, but it has excellent pulled pork, with a pit in the backyard. They closed their dining room during Covid, but you’ve inspired me to maybe go back sometime this week or next

[Triangle Business Journal @TriangleBIZJrnl]

Anna Tuell leads Chatham Habitat for Humanity as the group pursues a major development that will add dozens of affordable homes in Pittsboro. https://t.co/LhDOmg83Vr

[Jessica Rojas 🇺🇸💪 @VoicesUnheard]

This is what community victory looks like in NC! 👇🚫📸

Pittsboro Commissioners just voted 4-1 to end their Flock Safety contract early and remove the spy cameras.

With Chatham County already dropping theirs last month, the whole county is now Flock-free. When everyday people come out and fill the meetings, mass surveillance starts to lose its power!

Small towns staying free, let’s keep that spirit alive! 👊

[Chatham County, NC @ChathamCountyNC]

Library Prom— a fun, free, alternative prom just for ages 16–20.
📸 Free digital pro-style photos (6–7 PM)
📅 June 12, 2026 | 6–9 PM
📍 Chatham Community Library: Holmes Family Meeting Room, 197 NC Hwy 87 N Pittsboro, NC 27312
Registration required https://t.co/BK93Iuv8m9

[News & Record @NewsandRecord]

The Pittsboro Seaforth Hawks defeated the Rockingham County Cougars, 6-3, in the first game of a best-of-three series in the NCHSAA 5A regional finals on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in https://t.co/Zgm43bCUjt

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨 OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!!

It has been revealed that the city of Asheville NC will only rebuild 8 HOUSES with the $225 MILLION grant they received from the Trump administration after Hurricane Helene.

Yes, you read that right... EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

...OUT OF 11,488 DAMAGED HOMES

The city allocated ONLY $3 MILLION for home repairs.

And $14.9 MILLION for "administration"

FIVE TIMES MORE for PAPERWORK than for the people whose homes got COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!!

Over 100+ approved families are CURRENTLY ON A WAITLIST that will never be funded.

THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!!

PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Carolina Alumni @carolina_alumni]

When did you know Carolina would be a part of you forever? "Chapel Hill never leaves you, and you never leave Chapel Hill." — Roy Williams '72 ('73 MAT), to the class of 2026

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

I'm convinced @DukeWBB Coach Kara Lawson is one of the best leaders in sports. This clip on urgency, growth not being linear, and the idea that there is no finish line is superb:

🥱 Need It > Want It. The people who win aren’t always the most gifted, they’re the ones who refuse to look away from what’s required RIGHT NOW. They stay present with the hard, the boring, and the uncomfortable, and they attack anyway. Wanting shows up when it’s convenient; needing shows up when it costs you something.

📈📉 Growth isn’t a straight line. There will be peaks that tempt your ego and valleys that test your belief. Real leadership is keeping your urgency and sharpness intact through all of it. Trusting that consistency is what will carry you through. Don't let your own impatience with stagnancy take your spirit.

🏁 There is no finish line where you finally get to coast, only new levels that ask more of you. Better is a direction, not a destination. The “ceiling” you feel is often just an imaginary story you’ve told yourself about what’s possible. Growth asks for the endurance to keep going and the humility to treat every day, every season, every year as another chance to get better.

Bring urgency to the way you show up every day. Don't ever give up on your own growth. 🌱

[North Carolina Office of the State Auditor @NCStateAuditor]

Watch the highlights from State Auditor Dave Boliek’s presentation discussing the NC A&T State University audit findings. Be sure to read the full report on our website (link in bio).
#ncat #audit

[Chatham County News @chathamnc]

Meanwhile in Charlotte….

[Finn Sullivan @FinnSullivan27]

Great end to the regular season, winning the first conf championship since 2017.

Regular season stats:
IP: 50
79K/16BB
K/BB: 4.9
ER: 10
S%: 65.3
FPSO%: 77.8

At the Plate:
AB: 66
BA: .348 (.533 in conf)
H: 23
RBI: 25

On to the playoffs!

@Chargerbsbl @BrentHaynes13

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

Folks keep tagging me. They want to know: Is Asheville really that bad?

YES.

And regardless of what this article says, it’s not a new problem that developed after Helene.

I grew up in Canton. When we “went to town,” it was to Asheville.

Mamaw and Papaw took me to the flea market in Asheville multiple times a year. We did our clothes shopping at the Asheville JCPenney. When Papaw had to go to the VA, it was in Asheville. Daddy took me to the Belle Chere music festival every year.

Back then, Asheville was a hillbilly Mecca. Old men sat on benches outside Hardee’s with their sausage biscuits and coffee to gossip. Bluegrass played on gas station speakers. People clogged on weekends. Folks sounded like they’d never left WNC—the accents were thick.

By the time the city ended Belle Chere in 2013, Asheville had become a place I didn’t recognize.

Transplants had flooded out the locals, who escaped to Madison and Haywood counties.

Local accents? Gone. Bluegrass and clogging? Bastardized by people with zero ties to the traditions. The old men at Hardee’s? Replaced by homeless junkies nodding off and drooling on themselves.

It’s so bad that I’ve avoided Asheville for more than a decade. Only one of my children has ever been to the city, and she only went so I could take her to the Biltmore House.

Asheville is like an infection—and as much as it pains my heart to admit it, that infection is spreading.

The last time I was in Canton, we went out to eat. There wasn’t a single person in the restaurant with a local accent. Women in Lilly Pulitzer and men in dock shoes walked the sidewalks where overalls and work boots once ruled.

It won’t be long before the same policies that created this new Asheville turns the rest of WNC into a shell of its former self. 💔

[Margo @MargoinWNC]

Charlotte is the city of insanity

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I live in Buncombe County, where Asheville NC is located.

I used to live in Asheville city proper, but moved further out, mainly due to crime.

The city has fallen off a cliff, everyone knows it.

Homeless people are EVERYWHERE, in every park, taking shits on the street, st*bbing people with needles, doing very little jail time.

Almost every city park in Asheville is now overun with the homeless.

They live there... in tents. Under pavilions.

They do drugs and pass out and then scream at people.

You cannot take your kids there, it's horrifying.

...and the city council has zero interest in fixing the problems because they have no incentive to do so

The last Republican elected to city council in Asheville was in 2009 and there hasn't been another one since.

All these people do are protest and posture and demand more in taxes.

I was liberal and I was in favor of a lot of the policies, especially around homelessness... I was extremely sympathetic.

Honestly?

I still am sympathetic.

But the solutions being offered are not solutions, they are shoveling money out the door to NGOs that have no incentives WHATSOEVER to fix the problems.

All the incentives are align to keep homelessness alive and to make it even worse.

Bus loads of homeless people arrive in Asheville for this VERY REASON.

It's horrible for tourism, horrible for families... AND YES, it's horrible for the homeless too.

It isn't kind to just pretend people can sleep on the streets and everything is ok.

A HUGE NUMBER of homeless people were hit by cars last year, so much so that they banned begging for money on some city streets because SO MANY homeless were getting hit with cars.

It's terrible.

I once said the word, "homeless" here and someone got offended and said, "DO YOU MEAN THE UN-HOUSED?!!!!"

So yeah, things are not great.

But they will continue to vote for liberals who will keep these policies alive.

They tried to defund the police too, they demonized them so severely that 40% of officers just left.

Police officers come and talk to me all the time about how frustrated they are that they have to constantly arrest the same people over and over again.

One officer said he literally arrests 3 generations of family criminals... IN ONE DAY.

It breaks my heart because there are SO MANY good people here.

I saw it first-hand after Hurricane Helene, people stepped up in a BIG WAY.

The blue-haired libs worked along the red-truck MAGA to actually help people and I'll never forget how beautiful that was.

...but then Trump got elected and everything fell apart

It started before Trump, but once he got elected, everyone forgot about helping victims of Helene and the liberals shifted to protesting the VERY SAME MAN WHO WAS HELPING THEIR CITY.

It has made me sick to my stomach to watch protest after protest in Asheville... where the same people protesting likely drove over bridges, drove by homes, drove by communities that President Trump helped.

It's disgusting and infuriating and makes me so sad.

[Jack Danger @JackDangerLIVE]

🚨 𝑺𝑯𝑶𝑪𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮: 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒗𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆.

The State Highway Patrol updated its policy so aircraft, including drones, can be used for surveillance of motor vehicle violations on highways like I-40, I-85, and I-95.

You cruise those long open stretches thinking you’re in the clear. No cruiser in sight. No trooper hiding in the median.

But now there’s an eye in the sky.

While drones are mainly tied to crash reconstruction and traffic monitoring, this policy shift means aerial surveillance is officially on the table for catching violations.

The roads look peaceful.

The enforcement just got a lot harder to spot.

Drive accordingly, North Carolina.
#NCDrones #NCHighways #TrafficSurveillance