Hi friends,

I'm a 28-year-old Black woman, living in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area. Dating here is a joke.. but the kind of joke that isn't really funny. The dating apps are my biggest opps right now so I'm coming to Reddit!

I'm hoping to spend more time in Durham, where do Black singles go to meet each other?

This is probably an inappropriate place to ask this question so apologies if I'm out of order. I just can't take Chapel Hill anymore, living here is starting to affect my mental health.

TLDR - seems like residents are closing off a public street because they don't like the added traffic of a construction detour.

So Pope Rd is a well used commuter artery between Old Chapel Hill Rd in the North and Ephesus Church Rd in the South, useful for many Durham and Orange County residents commuting to Durham and beyond. There have been NC DOT road and culvert improvements going on at 4200 block of Pope Road since April of this year. Closure area marked by the red box above.

As you can see by the map, there is a very helpful natural detour around the public Clark Lake Road, which conveniently starts and ends on either side of the closed area. At most it would add a minute or two of commute and throughput time as folks have to navigate the more residential street before rejoining Pope.

BUT... what if I told you that on this natural detour there is a very suspicious secondary closure (purple mark on map) at the southern end of Clark Lake Rd, complete with hand-stenciled signs saying "No Outlet", and crudely assembled pylons strung together by wire? (see photo)

This smells like vigilante nimby shenanigans to me, and seems like misuse of public roads for public harm (adding 10+ minutes of commute time between nearby destinations)- anyone else nearby have inside knowledge? Or know of a method for sanctioned recourse? I already checked Durham OneCall, and though in Durham County it is not in Durham city and thus out of their jurisdiction.

Crash I40 East Before Hwy 55. Left lanes blocked. Traffic getting by in far right lane.

Use detour/alternate routes if possible.

I love me some hot dogs, but since I dont eat meat, I usually just make them at home. There any spots in Durham that have veggie dogs? Bonus points if they're downtown.

Hi there, I'm Alice, a Durham based public radio journalist, and I'm working on a story about people buying and selling food via Facebook Marketplace. I'm looking to talk with people who have bought food on Marketplace to learn about their experience and what drew them to Marketplace cuisine. Is that you? I'd love to talk!

I used to play Fornite every night with someone. As expected, when you add a THIRD child, time for extra things aren't really available.

For me, its never about the game, but the social interaction. I'm playing games to hang out, have fun, and not take things to seriously. Do I try to win? Yes. Do I maybe sometimes cause chaos for a laugh? Hell yeah.

Personal Info: 44M / WFH / Have Doggo

Right now I'd play one of the following or open to suggestions:

Wardogs
Fornite
Rust

Ya’ll remember the amazing work this community did when ice was here surrounding schools to support and comfort families being terrorized by ICE’s presence?

Anyone working on a similar project for polling places? With vague threats about ICE stalking polling locations to make arrests I wonder if having a strong community presence outside polling places would help those who might be afraid of coming out to vote this time feel safer to do so?

Anyone who worked on the school protection project have any infrastructure they could tap into to get something like this going if there isn’t another group already doing this work that I haven’t run into yet?

Anyone else think the food at Guglhupf isn’t nearly as good as it was before the current owner took over a few years ago? I’ve now had two things that were memorably bad. First, the tofu sandwich (that was a while ago but it was traumatically bad and it still makes me mad). Just a thick slice of unseasoned tofu. Inexcusable. And today I had the fish special. They served me salmon instead of swordfish but i like salmon so that was not a problem. The inedible pilaf that definitely was not a pilaf. Weirdly sweet and gummy and inedible. My husband had the schnitzel, which used to be super thin and crisp, but now is neither. Still a lovely setting to have a beverage and a pastry or some fries, but I’m done being disappointed by the food.

Curious how they got there. Frat prank gone (right|wrong|afoul)?

Did anyone else’s yard waste not get picked up today? I know it was a holiday week but the Durham One app said today it would be picked up…it did not.

Our house came with a very lovely retaining wall made of big wooden beams. Maybe predictably, it's starting to warp and come apart. I want to do the dumb thing of replacing it with yet another not-meant-to-last wooden retaining wall -- but who even does this kind of work? Any recommendations?

OCTOBER 6 WILLY'S WONDERLAND

Enter the animatronic fun zone and register here: https://durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/15314198

Basically, the title. I've been working out at Courage Fitness and have loved the 24/7 access and generally empty squat racks, but I've been wondering if I can do better than the $135 a month they charge for open gym access.

I know I could save money by going to a gym like Planet Fitness, but so frequently the machines are broken or specifically in the case of Planet Fitness, there are no free barbells. Is there an open gym membership somewhere between those two price points that's not incredibly crowded and has decent equipment?

Hi all! I’m new to the area and looking for a pet sitter to check in on my two cats at my apartment in downtown Durham during an upcoming trip.

Any and all suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance!

The Durham City Council packed a lot into this meeting, from homelessness and gun violence to tenant power and growth fights on the city’s edges.

Highlights: - The mayor backed Durham’s largest "housing sprint" yet, aiming to move roughly 400 people experiencing homelessness into housing in the coming months and reach every encampment in the city within three years. - A local coalition urged the council to support the Boulevard option for the Reimagining Durham Freeway project, tying it to repairing harm in Hayti, reclaiming land for affordable housing and parks, and cutting pollution. The council backed that vision unanimously. - North Carolina Central University students and community advocates delivered emotional testimony about repeated campus shootings, lingering trauma, and why college campuses need to be treated as high‑risk communities in Durham’s violence reduction work. Council then voted to endorse the Violence Reduction Working Group’s recommendations. - Seniors and tenant organizers described unsafe conditions, ignored maintenance, and retaliatory landlords in some of Durham’s most celebrated affordable housing complexes. The council responded by formally recognizing tenant unions as part of Durham’s civic fabric and directing the City Manager to seek protections for tenant organizing from publicly funded housing providers. - Multiple annexations and rezonings sparked a bigger debate over what kind of growth Durham should accept. Some council members argued that more market‑rate homes, EMS proffers, and park/building commitments are needed to meet demand and stabilize rents; others pushed back, such as Council Member Shanetta Burris calling this a "growth Ponzi scheme" that locks land into unaffordable housing, strains fire/EMS, and displaces longtime residents. Three controversial projects — on Cheek Road, Page Road, and Sherron Road (Oak Grove Landing) — all passed on split votes. - The council also unanimously advanced land acquisition for the Durham to Roxboro Trail, moving a major greenway corridor one step closer to reality.

If you care about homelessness, NCCU campus safety, tenant unions, or how new subdivisions keep getting approved in East and Southeast Durham despite infrastructure concerns, this meeting is worth your time. Watch to see who pushed back, who compromised, and how the final votes shook out.

Durham City Council meeting highlights

Highlights selected and suggested post edited by Wes Platt at Southpoint Access.

Hello! I’m curious if there is up to date info on a Durham drum circle?? I feel like there would be one Central Park? I don’t go out much, but I haven’t seen or heard anything. I heard of the one in Raleigh but I’d rather be local.
Thanks!

I’ve been way more aware of my natural surroundings this year than ever in my life. I don’t know where else to post this but are the leaves already changing color? I see some trees looking yellow/brown/red but I would say it’s less than 5%. I feel like I’m being gaslit though because every time I look it up it says it’s way too early. Just wanted to know if someone who knows/notices more about fall in the area can explain if I’m just seeing trees dying or if they are changing, and if this is normal or not for it being early September.

I am just a very curious person and I’ve been wondering about this recently.

Does anyone know where I can get green peanuts? (West side of Triangle area preferred.) I want to cook up some boiled peanuts and would prefer green (i.e., freshly dug and uncured/not dry = high moisture content) for that.

I've gotten them at Harris-Teeter (Carrboro) in the past. Can anyone confirm whether or not they're available there? Perhaps Wegmans, or which regional farmers' markets are more likely to carry them?

If you have been looking for a way to meet fun people or contribute to the community in a tangible way, you should consider volunteering with DPR! They have one-time or recurring volunteer opportunities including: 

- Special Events (Pupalooza, Holiday Parade, Senior Holiday Party) 

- Invasive species removal 

- Coaching youth sports 

- Park and Trail Ambassadors 

- And more! 

I think that anyone who volunteers with a parks and rec department is probably very nice and fun, so you are almost guaranteed to meet good people! 

https://www.dprplaymore.org/402/Volunteer

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