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For anyone who attended the drone show tonight, when did you get there and what did you do before the show? Did you enjoy it or did you feel like it was a waste of time?

As I was catching the shuttle I heard a lot of complaining about it not being much of a show. My kid thought it was cool, but I don’t know if I think it was worth the trouble. And the shuttle situation at the end was a nightmare and I feel like I missed out on the experience of seeing fireworks!

I am grateful that the town tried something new and will hopefully be receptive to input from the community. I’m interested to hear if other would like to see the drone show done again

My buddy, his gf, her sister, and myself were hungry AF at 3am this morning, so obviously we go to time out.

We park out front and go in to order, we were followed in by a group of some rough looking characters, vibes were off.

When we finally get all the food we head out to our vehicle and one of the girls noticed a black glove that had been stuffed in the trunk seam.

My instincts immediately kicked in, I removed the glove and scanned my surroundings, nothing really stood out.

As we are pulling off, one of these sketchy ass dudes come walking RIGHT UP on our trunk, an SUV also pulled out like 30sec after us, trailed us for a min and then split...

Idk, fuckin weird vibes if you ask me.

edit: LADIES! please always carry pepper spray and stay vigilant 🙏

The Orange County Department of Social Services (DSS) is providing free box fans to Orange County residents who need relief from the summer heat.

Fans are available on a first-come, first-served basis at both DSS locations (one fan per household, while supplies last):

113 Mayo Street, Hillsborough

2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill

No application is required. Residents simply need to visit either location and request a fan at the front desk.

For residents who do not have transportation, fan delivery is available. Call Orange County Department of Social Services at 919-245-2800 and ask to speak to someone about fan delivery within Orange County.

After some discussion in another thread I am now curious what LOCAL restaurant in chapel hill or carrboro has the best crispy chicken sandwich and/or tenders.

As a base I have had Rise, and it is what I would consider mid. Fine but not really worth a trip, I prefer their breakfast boxes and biscuits. Chicken was a bit dry and leaned to heavily on the sauce which actually was great, but without the sauce it would have been pretty bad.

So any local suggestions or do I have venture out of town for anything decent?

my son will be a junior there this year. He and his brother used to be able to share a car but his brother graduated. We're thinking about sending him with a 21 Hyundai Kona EV.. Or more specifically we were thinking about buying one....we don't own it yet it would also be our first EV

Is there such a thing as "free"charging anymore? Wondering if like a Whole Foods or something would offer that? Anybody know of any free charging around town? Weaver Street or similar if you shop there

If not free, I'm assuming charge stations are fairly widely available? Again we're new to this Electric game so I have no idea how much it cost to charge a vehicle and where those things are. So thanks for entertaining what may be dumb questions

Hi all!

My roommate and I are looking for a 2 bedroom/1.5+ bath apartment on the UNC bus line for under $800/person. 3 GSC apartments stood out to us - Booker Creek, Pinegate, and Carolina.

Booker Creek and Pinegate are in decent locations, near grocery stores. I like the townhouse layout of Booker Creek, but I’ve seen some flooding concerns for certain units at Booker Creek. Pinegate seems fine, but I don’t love the layout. Finally, Carolina’s layout is best suited for us best, but it is slightly tucked away and we haven’t seen too much about it online.

Any takes on these apartments? Thank you in advance!

I was very excited to hear that a Baskin Robbins and Jimmy John's are coming soon to near where the Target is on Franklin.

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Hi all, I’m just trying to gauge whether or not the show will be crowded given the heat forecast, to determine if we should get on one of the earlier shuttles to the high school? TIA!

Our Child is at a camp at UNC and so we are Airbnb in the area. Looking for a gym that offers a daily drop in rate. Don’t need classes. Just machines , treadmills and floor workout area.
We are members on Power House Gym in our town in NJ, but I see the ones in chapel hill are not open yet.

My daughter has suddenly changed her mind on her cake theme for her upcoming birthday. Any suggestions on bakeries or local places to get a fun and exciting unicorn themed cake for a 6 year old??

Thank you!!

Would love y'all's firsthand experience on living or visiting here, we're looking to make moves later this year and are slightly gun shy on new places to live after our last rental. I've seen a lot of extremely positive things but the one or two comments about water damage are concerning if maybe unsubstantiated? Let me know!

I want to take my boys and get a shitty ice cream in a shitty cake cone sometimes. For not a lot of money.

Does anything exist like that around here? I don’t trust McDonald’s to not be broken and otherwise, from what I’m seeing, it’s all more upscale than what I am referring to. Nearest DQ is 14 miles away.