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Renée Price

Renée Price served ten years on the Orange County Board of Commissioners, stepping down at the end of 2022 to represent House District 50 in the North Carolina General Assembly. On the board she pressed for affordable housing, school facilities, farmland preservation and racial justice. As chair she backed the county library's move to end overdue fines in November 2021, and she spoke at the May 2022 groundbreaking for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro.

Source: Orange County government: Commissioner Renee Price Honored for Service on Board of Commissioners

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  1. Gaps in vaccination among Black and Hispanic residents reported Chapelboro reported that Black residents were 12.4 percent of Orange County's population but 9 percent of those vaccinated, and Hispanic residents 8.6 percent and 5.5 percent. The county was working with church leaders and advocates in a Human Services Consulting Group and had held clinics at the Hargraves Community Center and in Cedar Grove. People: Renée Price Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Hargraves Community CenterChapelboro: Orange County's Efforts To Equitably Vaccinate Minority Communities Show Early Success
  2. The Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center opens A ribbon cutting presided over by Renee Price opened the Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center, which houses Cooperative Extension and other county and partner agencies. People: Bonnie B. Davis, Renée Price Place: Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural CenterSearch the index · N.C. Cooperative Extension, Orange County Center: Bonnie B. Davis' Legacy and the Center Named After Her
  3. Orange County Public Library ends overdue fines Orange County commissioners approved a fine-free model for the county library, and overdue fines ended the next day. Library staff had found that fines fell hardest on residents facing economic hardship; charges for lost or damaged items continued. The recommendation came out of a strategic planning team organized by assistant library director Erin Sapienza. People: Renée Price, Erin Sapienza Place: Orange CountyChapelboro: Orange County Public Library Goes Fine-Free (November 19, 2021); with Orange County news release, Orange County Names Sapienza as Library Director (July 18, 2022)
  4. Orange County lifts its indoor mask mandate Orange County and its three towns ended the indoor mask requirement on March 7, 2022. UNC-Chapel Hill lifted its campus mandate the same day, and Orange County Schools planned to make masks optional on March 10. People: Quintana Stewart, Renée Price Place: Orange CountyChapelboro: Orange County Announces Plan to Lift Indoor Mask Mandate
  5. Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro Carrboro and Orange County broke ground at 203 South Greensboro Street for the Orange County Southern Branch Library and civic building known as The 203 Project, after both boards gave final approval on March 15, 2022. Mayor Damon Seils led the program, with remarks by commissioners' chair Renee Price, County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Town Manager Richard J. White III and Nerys Levy of the Friends of the Southern Branch Library. People: Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Damon Seils, Renée Price, Bonnie Hammersley Place: Carrboro · Also named: Richard J. White IIITown of Carrboro news: Groundbreaking for The 203 Project (May 2022)
  6. Soil collection ceremony at the Orange County courthouse honors Cyrus Guy and four other 1869 lynching victims The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition held a soil collection ceremony for Washington Morrow, Wright Malone, Daniel Morrow, Thomas Jefferson Morrow and Cyrus Guy, all lynched in 1869. One jar for each man was to go to the Equal Justice Initiative's memorial collection in Montgomery, Alabama, and a second jar was to stay in Orange County. People: Cyrus Guy, Daniel Morrow, Jefferson Morrow, Washington Morrow, Wright Malone, Thomas Jefferson Morrow, Renée Price Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · Chapelboro: 'Do Not Forget Us': Soil Collection Ceremony Held for 5 Orange County Lynching Victims (May 1, 2023)

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