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The new election will take place no earlier than Feb. 12— 55 days from the Dec. 19 decision.
By Matt Saldańa | 26 Dec 2007

On Election Day, Lelah Bennett sat down to a free meal of barbecue and sweet tea at Al's Diner, the '50s-flavored eatery two blocks from the Pittsboro precinct on West Street, where she had just cast her ballot.
By Lisa Sorg | 28 Nov 2007

No matter how sensitive, the earth sensors placed in the desert to detect human footsteps cannot shake the imagination of Latin American immigrants.
By Lisa Sorg | 14 Nov 2007

No matter what trouble Ralph Edward McLaurin Jr. was in, he always seemed to get by.
By Mosi Secret | 11 Jul 2007

The controversy over district voting fractured Chatham County by ideology and geography, politics and race.
By Lisa Sorg | 15 Nov 2006

The musty smell of fertilizer hangs in the air at Pope's Tru Value Hardware in Cole Park Plaza, where shelves are packed with everything from sledgehammers to saws to fuses.
By Lisa Sorg | 13 Sep 2006

Three of the five Chatham County commissioners effectively voted one of their colleagues out of office on Monday night.
By Jennifer Strom | 23 Aug 2006

In the hills of western Chatham County about four miles south of Siler City, just off a two-lane road, sits a small shelter built over not one but a pair of natural springs.
By Roland McReynolds | 16 Aug 2006

Last week, while Chatham County voters streamed to polling places to wrestle control of their county's future away from real estate profiteers, developer Holland Gaines sold a million dollars' worth of land.
By Jennifer Strom | 10 May 2006

The showdown between big-money development interests and a grassroots coalition is a Wild West version of similar battles all over North Carolina.
By Jennifer Strom | 26 Apr 2006

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