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1. Recent decades · 1976–2026

2. January 8, 2010
   Founding or opening · Hillsborough Orange County Main Library opens on Margaret Lane

   The county's new 23,500-square-foot Main Library at 137 West Margaret Lane in Hillsborough held its grand opening on January 8, 2010, after planning that began with a task force in 2000 and a groundbreaking in April 2008. It added a teen center, a 90-person meeting room and a local history area.

3. March 2016
   Founding or opening · 104 North Churton Street, Hillsborough Bona Fide Sandwich Co. opens at 104 North Churton Street

   The owners of the Wooden Nickel Pub, LaPlace and Hillsborough BBQ Company opened a sandwich shop at 104 North Churton Street.

4. October 2017
   Closing or ending · 104 North Churton Street, Hillsborough Bona Fide Sandwich Co. closes on North Churton Street

   The owners announced on October 3, 2017 that that week's lunches would be the shop's last, about a year and a half after it opened. They began serving lunch at the Wooden Nickel Pub instead.

5. May 26, 2018
   Naming or commemoration · Chapel Hill Chapel Hill residents walk and sing in memory of Mama Dip

   The day before Mildred Council's funeral at Chapel Hill Bible Church, William Thorpe of UNC Walk For Health led a walk through Chapel Hill in her memory, with people singing "This Little Light of Mine" from porches along the way.

6. August 28, 2018
   Law, policy or court · Chapel Hill The UNC Board of Governors gives Chapel Hill until November 15 to propose a 'lawful and lasting' plan for the monument

   Eight days after the toppling, the Board of Governors met for nearly two hours in closed session and adopted a resolution directing Chancellor Folt and the trustees to present by November 15 a plan offering 'a lawful and lasting path that protects public safety, preserves the monument and its history'. Thom Goolsby cast the lone no vote, and the board ordered an outside review of the University's handling of the August 20 protest. The trustees met the same day.

7. November 27, 2019
   Law, policy or court · Orange County The UNC System gives Silent Sam to the Sons of Confederate Veterans with a $2.5 million trust in a same-day consent judgment

   The North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the UNC System and Board of Governors over the monument and a consent judgment was entered the same day in Orange County Superior Court. The System handed over the statue, to be kept outside the fourteen counties with a System campus, and endowed a $2.5 million charitable trust from non-state funds for its care and display. Board chair Randy Ramsey said the deal let the University 'move forward'.

8. May 1, 2021
   Health or relief action · Rogers Road Community Center, Chapel Hill Pop-up vaccine clinic held at the Rogers Road Community Center

   The Orange County Health Department held a pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Rogers Road Community Center for Hispanic and Asian American residents, many of whom do not speak English, after local volunteers asked for one and printed flyers in several languages.

9. December 2022
   Property or economic transaction · Chapel Hill UNC raises housekeepers' pay by 90 cents an hour

   Guskiewicz told the campus by email that housekeeping salaries would rise, with the amount set by position and experience and back pay to November 21, 2022. Housekeepers, who had asked for $20 an hour and an end to parking fees, called the raise a slap in the face and rallied outside South Building in February 2023.

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