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In today’s news: local elected officials discuss the budget impact of extreme weather, and UNC basketball stars work with kids at the Hargraves Center. Also: judges side with UNC in a documents-request dispute; national education leaders slam the UNC system’s decision to publicize course syllabi; North Carolina clashes with the Trump administration over commercial driver’s licenses and immigration; Durham’s police chief announces her retirement; and we look ahead to a busy weekend in Tar Heel sports, from basketball to gymnastics to swimming to fencing.

97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck recaps the day’s news, from local government to business developments to UNC sports. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s daily news reports, which you can hear live during “This Morning with Aaron Keck” every weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.

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Chapel Hill Mayor Jess Anderson spoke with 97.9 The Hill’s Andrew Stuckey on Thursday, January 8, discussing town news and events. She talked about the town returning to a more normal schedule after the holidays. They both discussed the challenges around signing kids up for summer camp in the Chapel Hill area. She also talked about the town council meeting from this week which included discussion of amendments for the town’s Land Use Management Ordinance (LUMO), and more.

Conversations With the Mayors is an ongoing series on “News on the Hill” where host Andrew Stuckey visits with the local government leaders who help shape our communities in Chapel Hill and the surrounding area. Each Tuesday he visits with Hillsborough Mayor Mark Bell; Wednesdays feature a conversation with Chair of the Orange County Commissioners Jean Hamilton; Thursdays feature Chapel Hill Mayor Jess Anderson, and Fridays include a conversation with Carrboro Mayor Barbara Foushee. You can listen to previous “Conversations With the Mayors” here.

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This week, Scott and Aaron remember Carrboro music legend Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten – who might have lived and died in obscurity, were it not for one chance meeting with a famous family. Also: Fannie Farmer revolutionizes cooking by publishing a cookbook with standardized measurements; FDR delivers his famed “Four Freedoms” speech; and Teddy Roosevelt preserves the Grand Canyon for posterity.

97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

Click here to listen back to the full History Matters archive – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” Thursday mornings at 8:30 on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

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The Holland Brothers stopped by Live and Local this week, following the release of their new album “Bon Vivant Savants.”

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Twin brothers Mark and Michael Holland have been stalwarts in the Triangle music scene for decades – dating back to the 1990s, when they played together in the seminal band Jennyanykind. Recorded last year in Winston-Salem, “Bon Vivant Savants” is their first full-length album in nine years – though the intent was to make it feel like a throwback to the distant past.

“We have a great partnership with Doug Williams at EMR Recorders in Winston-Salem, and our longtime bassist Billie Feather played with us,” Mark says, “and we decided we wanted to do something (with) vintage equipment. Doug had all this vintage, 1930s-era RCA gear…we were looking for something that sounded like it came from the past, and it actually came out to be a very awesome, warm sounding record. Maybe our best sounding record to date.”

Listen to “Bon Vivant Savants” and purchase it on Bandcamp.

The Hollands have been busy in the last year: not only did they record the album and celebrate it with shows, they’ve also been building a whole new audience with regular appearances on the HBO series “The Righteous Gemstones.”

“We met a music supervisor who had placed a song of mine in an show called Dickinson on Apple TV, (and) we became friends,” Michael says of how those appearances came to be. “And he knew we were into old blues and bluegrass and folk, and he said, ‘the first season of Righteous Gemstones (has) this church picnic (scene), and we need a couple of songs.’ So Mark and I got some other guys to help us with that – and then we were like, ‘you should get us to be in the show!’ And we were kidding around…(but) they ended up asking us to be in the show. And that was really fun.”

Mark and Michael Holland stopped by 97.9 The Hill to discuss “Bon Vivant Savants” and play two songs, “Mississippi Woman” and “COVID-19 Blues.” Listen:

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Trending today: a survey finding that fewer than half of Americans have read a single book in the last 12 months. (It’s even more dire for teenagers: just 14 percent read for pleasure last year, down from 27 percent two decades ago.) Avid reader Michael Koh fills in for Victor, while Aaron describes his two-year project of walking through the Davis Library stacks on campus – and describes the nerdiest book he’s read all year. (There’s a lot of competition.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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The Mebane City Council recently approved a new 20-year comprehensive plan, “Mebane 2045,” to govern development for the next two decades. Mebane development director Ashley Ownbey joins Aaron and Kelly to discuss some of the details – including a focus on density to promote growth without sprawl, plus a higher concern for walkability and expanded green space. Kelly also shares details about upcoming events in town, including the Downtown Mebane Eggstravaganza, which takes place March 28.

97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

You can also listen to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” on Spotify. Click here to follow Aaron and listen to all his segments, from local news to fun features to hard-hitting interviews.

Every month, Aaron welcomes Mebane public information officer Kelly Hunter for “Positively Mebane,” a look at what’s going on in Mebane and what folks can see and do while they’re there.

Visit PositivelyMebane.com to learn more!

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In today’s news: members of the UNC community rally to protest the planned closure of six global area studies centers. Also: a Durham man faces 29 charges in connection with a string of Hillsborough break-ins from November; Chatham and Durham elected officials convene to discuss budget plans and development rules; Carrboro gets a national honor for its budget document; a federal court blocks Trump-administration plans to rescind medical research grants (including $1.2 billion just in the Triangle); and UNC professors react to big shifts in federal policy. And in sports: big individual honors for multiple Tar Heels, including basketball star Caleb Wilson and three UNC baseball players.

97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck recaps the day’s news, from local government to business developments to UNC sports. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s daily news reports, which you can hear live during “This Morning with Aaron Keck” every weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.

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Haw River Assembly Executive Director and Keeper of the Haw Emily Sutton spoke with 97.9 The Hill’s Andrew Stuckey on Wednesday, January 7. She discussed a meeting of the state’s Environmental Management Commission, which is making decisions on how the state will regulate PFAS and other pollutants. She also talked about the recently released “State of the Haw” report and an upcoming community meeting unpacking some of that data, and more.

Each week, News on The Hill engages in conversation with Chatham County leaders for the Chatham County Roundup. You can find previous conversations with Pittsboro Mayor Kyle Shipp, Chatham County Commissioner Karen Howard, and other county leaders by clicking here.

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Welcome to Talking Culture! In this weekly interview series from 97.9 The Hill WCHL, you’ll hear from writers, performers, musicians and individuals involved in advancing and promoting cultural arts in our community.

This week Aaron welcomes Michael Venutolo-Mantovani of the Feckers Theater Collective, a group of actors who’ve been putting on shows for the last two years after meeting at an ArtsCenter class. They’re back at The ArtsCenter this weekend, staging “1 x 1 = 5,” a series of five short plays.

“1 x 1 = 5” runs Friday and Saturday, January 9-10, at 7:30 p.m. both nights. Click here to buy tickets and more information.

Aaron spoke with Venutolo-Mantovani about Feckers’ origin story and the five one-acts that comprise “1 x 1 = 5” – all of which have numbers at their center, with a range of emotions often within the same scenes.

97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.

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Trending today: a man manages to board a flight at London’s Heathrow Airport without a ticket or a passport. Victor and Michael are incredulous as to how that could possibly happen, but Aaron kinda gets it. (Also, we learn why the TSA security rules seem to be slightly different every single time, and Victor’s impressions all turn into Jimmy Stewart.)

Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.

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